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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: $35.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Penn Greek Drama Series
Publication Date:
01 May 1998
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780812216530
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Poetry / poems by individual poets, DRAMA / Ancient & Classical
"A speakable version of Sophocles's 'Philoctetes': as it were, after 25 years, a sequel to Pound's 'The Women of Trachis'."
"A two-year project to publish the corpus of classical Greek drama in translations by an impressive array of contemporary poets. It may not be long before anyone who mentions that he is reading Sophocles in Greek can expect to be told, 'Oh but you simply "must' read it in translation.'"
"Don't look for the wild and woolly-these were put together by wordsmiths. . . . But they are a far cry from some of the stodgier translations."
"The 12-volume set will offer readers new verse translations of the complete surviving tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the surviving comedies of Aristophanes and Menander. The complete line of Greek theater classics has not been offered to readers since 1938."
"A two-year project to publish the corpus of classical Greek drama in translations by an impressive array of contemporary poets. It may not be long before anyone who mentions that he is reading Sophocles in Greek can expect to be told, 'Oh but you simply "must' read it in translation.'"
"Don't look for the wild and woolly-these were put together by wordsmiths. . . . But they are a far cry from some of the stodgier translations."
"The 12-volume set will offer readers new verse translations of the complete surviving tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the surviving comedies of Aristophanes and Menander. The complete line of Greek theater classics has not been offered to readers since 1938."
Introduction
—Palmer Bovie
Ajax
—Translated by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish
Women of Trachis
—Translated by Brendan Galvin
Electra
—Translated by Henry Taylor
Philoctetes
—Translated by Armand Schwerner
Pronouncing Glossary of Names
About the Translators