Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translation

By L.R. Lind

Book Overview

A brief essay on the characteristics of ancient Greek drama prefaces a collection of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395051177
• ISBN13: 9780395051177
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

CASCA: “…for my part, it was Greek to me.”

AESCHYLUS Prometheus Bound Translated by Rex Warner Agamemnon Translated by Louis MacNeice SOPHOCLES Antigone Translated by Shaemas O’Sheel Oedipus Rex Translated by Albert Cook Philoctetes Translated by Kathleen Freeman EURIPIDES Alcestis Translated by Richard Aldington Suppliants Translated by L. R. Lind Andromache Translated by L. R. Lind Bacchae Translated by Henry Birkhead ARISTOPHANES Lysistrata Translated by Charles T. Murphy

A good value, some classic translations

Louis MacNeice was a more significant 20th cent. poet, and a better Greek scholar, both of those together, than nearly any translator of Greek tragedy I can think of. His "Agamemnon" alone justifies this volume. Also unique is C. T. Murphy's "Lysistrata", produced for a Harvard College student production (perhaps not one with Leonard Bernstein incidental music, though that was the rumor when I was Murphy's student at Oberlin). The Sophocles and Euripides translations are serviceable at least. Given that one play in the Oxford Greek Tragedy in New Translations series costs $8 or 9, and that Chicago or Penguin organize by single playwrites, and that the standard theatre history anthologies contain inferior translations in pricier volumes, this remains a terrific value for the money.