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Product details
- ISBN 9781854598479
- Weight: 174g
- Dimensions: 130 x 195mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations.
This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series, contains:
Antigone by Sophocles, translated by Marianne McDonald. The first great 'resistance' drama, and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.
Bacchae by Euripides, translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.
Medea by Euripides, translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael. The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity.
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC) was, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.
Sophocles (c.496–405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Of his more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.
