[UCP Books]: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Third Edition
“These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.”
Robert Brustein, The New Republic
The Complete Greek Tragedies
Third Edition
Third Edition
Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore
Third Edition edited by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most
| Publication date: May 15, 2013 | International publication date: 27 May 2013 |
For the past sixty years, the University of Chicago Press’s The Complete Greek Tragedies have been the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. The translations, managed by eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides into lively and compelling English.
This highly anticipated third edition is the most significant revision of the plays since their first publication, carefully updating the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which Chicago’s versions are famous. This edition includes brand-new translations of Euripides’s Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers; new introductions for each play that offer essential information about its first production; and an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, notes addressing textual uncertainties, and a glossary of names and places in each volume.
This edition also reorganizes the plays both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which they were first written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks that will introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.
David Grene(1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet and translator best known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Mark Griffith is professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Glenn W. Most is professor of ancient Greek at the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa and a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
For additional information, please contact Laura Avey at (773)702-0376 or lavey@press.uchicago.edu.
| Aeschylus I The Persians, translated by Seth Benardete The Seven Against Thebes, translated by David Grene The Suppliant Maidens, translated by Seth Benardete Prometheus Bound, translated by David Grene Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31144-9 $13.00/£9.00 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-31145-6 | Euripides V The Bacchae, translated by William Arrowsmith Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by Charles R. Walker The Cyclops, translated by William Arrowsmith Rhesus, translated by Richmond Lattimore Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30898-2 $13.00/£9.00 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-30933-0 |
| Aeschylus II The Oresteia, translated by Richmond Lattimore Proteus (fragment), translated by Mark Griffith Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31147-0 $12.00/£8.50 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-31148-7 | Sophocles I Antigone, translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff Oedipus the King, translated by David Grene Oedipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fitzgerald Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31151-7 $12.00/£8.50 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-31153-1 |
| Euripides I Alcestis, translated by Richmond Lattimore Medea, translated by Oliver Taplin The Children of Heracles, translated by Mark Griffith Hippolytus, translated by David Grene Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30880-7 $12.00/£8.50 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-30934-7 | Sophocles II Ajax, translated by John Moore The Women of Trachis, translated by Michael Jameson Electra, translated by David Grene Philoctetes, translated by David Grene The Trackers, translated by Mark Griffith Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31155-5 $13.00/£9.00 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-31156-2 |
| Euripides II Andromache, translated by Deborah Roberts Hecuba, translated by William Arrowsmith The Suppliant Women, translated by Frank William Jones Electra, translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30878-4 $13.00/£9.00 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-30935-4 | Greek Tragedies 1 Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone Euripides: Hippolytus Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03528-4 $12.00/£8.50 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-03531-4 |
| Euripides III Heracles, translated by William Arrowsmith The Trojan Women, translated by Richmond Lattimore Iphigenia among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson Ion, translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30882-1 $13.00/£9.00 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-30936-1 | Greek Tragedies 2 Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers Sophocles: Electra Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03559-8 $12.00/£8.50 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-03562-8 |
| Euripides IV Helen, translated by Richmond Lattimore The Phoenician Women, translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff Orestes, translated by William Arrowsmith Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30896-8 $13.00/£9.00 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-30937-8 | Greek Tragedies 3 Aeschylus: The Eumenides Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03593-2 $12.00/£8.50 E-book ISBN: 978-0-226-03609-0 |