{"product_id":"aeschylus-2-the-persians-seven-against-thebes-the-suppliants-prometheus-bound-paperback-softback-9780812216714","title":"Aeschylus, 2; The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812216714","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAeschylus, 2\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid R. Slavitt (Edited by), Palmer Bovie (Edited by), David R. Slavitt (Contributions by), David R. Slavitt (Translated by), Stephen Sandy (Contributions by), Stephen Sandy (Translated by), Gail Holst-Warhaft (Contributions by), Gail Holst-Warhaft (Translated by), William Matthews (Contributions by), William Matthews (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812216714\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.298 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Directness, vivid imagery, and rhetorical music prevail.\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) \"A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible,' and consummately American in tone and feeling. For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces; after 2,500 years, the poetry of Euripides and Aeschylus has found a new voice-in fact, ten of them.\" (\u003ci\u003eBoston Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.\u003cbr\u003e This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing fire and hope to humankind.\u003cbr\u003e Translations are by David Slavitt (Persians), Stephen Sandy (Seven Against Thebes), Gail Holst-Warhaft (The Suppliants), and William Matthews (Prometheus Bound).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, by Palmer Bovie\u003cbr\u003e The Persians\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by David R. Slavitt\u003cbr\u003e Seven Against Thebes\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by Stephen Sandy\u003cbr\u003e The Suppliants\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft\u003cbr\u003e Prometheus Bound\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by William Matthews\u003cbr\u003e Pronouncing Glossary of Names\u003cbr\u003e About the Translators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555678581016,"sku":"9780812216714","price":18.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aeschylus-2-the-persians-seven-against-thebes-the-suppliants-prometheus-bound-paperback-softback-9780812216714","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}