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Wauconda, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc, XI, 311 p. Paperback. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband berieben, Kopfschnitt leicht verschmutzt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / binding rubbed, top edge slightly soiled, otherwise very good condition. - Stories of violence, passion, lust, heroism, love, and revenge have always excited us ? whether our tastes run to Shakespeare and the opera, or tabloids and television. But never have such stories been told with greater depth and artistry than on the Attic stage. Yet few people can read these plays in the Greek. And many who turn to translations in eager anticipation find themselves frustrated by allusions as mysterious to us as a reference like ?Better Red than Dead? would be to an ancient Greek. By supplying the missing dimensions and the missing bits that every Athenian knew, H. R. Jolliffe has given these stories the life and fire they had from the first. Told in modern-day prose, the plays will no longer baffle readers unfamiliar with Hellenic civilization. Two thousand years before Hamlet was written, the little city of Athens achieved a brilliance that has never been equaled till modern times. It was there that three geniuses virtually created the drama and brought it to full flower within a generation: Aeschylus, who probed the will of the gods and the forces of justice and destiny; Sophocles, who portrayed man's heroism in a cruel universe; Euripides, who focused on individuals with all their pretensions, weaknesses, and conflicts, and found a new nobility in such ?inferior? creatures as women, foreigners, and slaves. These three giants, who lived in the most intellectually exciting time and place in history, shaped the course of Western drama and fiction. Some of their plays are still staged ? even filmed and televised. And all of them ? under many disguises and transformations ? live on in thousands of books and plays. Many who have not felt the fire of these stories, with all their exciting twists and turns and subtle irony, know only the ashes of their outlines: The Passionate Medea, Jason's deserted mistress, whose fierce revenge ruined his life but destroyed a mother?s soul. The Grimmest of Detective Stories, in which Oedipus the King relentlessly tracked down a mysterious crime until he found himself trapped in a horror of murder and incest. The Rebel Antigone, who defied a king rather than betray her own conscience. The Great King Agamemnon, whose palace was riddled by the blackest of scandals Orestes, whose mind was unhinged when it became his sacred duty to commit an unspeakable crime. / CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Euripides MEDEA Euripides ALCESTIS Sophocles OEDIPUS THE KING Page Sophocles OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Sophocles ANTIGONE Euripides HIPPOLYTUS Euripides and Euripides the Younger IPHIGENIA IN AULIS Sophocles AJAX Aeschylus AGAMEMNON Sophocles and Aeschylus ELECTRA THE THEATER OF THE GREEKS. ISBN 9780865160132Theater 1998.

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Tales-from-the-Greek-Drama~~H-R-Jolliffe, Tales From the Greek Drama, Other Format.