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The 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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 178
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Penn Greek Drama Series
Publication Date:
01 November 1997
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780812216271
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Poetry by individual poets, DRAMA / Ancient & Classical
"What David Slavitt does, as the early Roman poets did, is to take a poem as his 'model' and make it his own by creating in late twentieth-century English an appropriate equivalent of the ancient poem. His Oresteia is the most lively and readable version known to me."
David R. Slavitt was educated at Andover and Yale and has published more than sixty books: original poetry (recently Eight Longer Poems), translations (recently Broken Columns, of Statius and Claudian), novels (recently Lives of the Saints), critical works (recently Virgil), and short stories. He worked for seven years as a journalist at Newsweek and continues to do freelance reporting and reviewing. With Palmer Bovie he coedited the series Complete Roman Drama in Translation.