The Complete Greek Tragedies: A Centennial Edition

By Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."--Robert Brustein, The New Republic

"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."--Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation

"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."--Times Education Supplement

"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."--Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian

"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."--Commonweal

"Grene is one of the great translators."--Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times

"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."--Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226307638
• ISBN13: 9780226307633
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 2124 Pages
• Weight: 9.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 0.7" x 6.5"