Six Greek Tragedies: Persians; Prometheus Bound; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes; Trojan Women; Bacchae

by Kenneth McLeish, J. Michael Walton, Stephen Raphael

A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies

In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume include Aeschylus' Persians (472 BC), the earliest surviving Greek tragedy and only surviving 'history' play; his Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most deeply mythological of all tragedies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041377256X
• ISBN13: 9780413772565
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: A&c Black 3pl
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.9"