A collection of all-new translations of the world?s most beloved Ancient Greek plays-filled with scandal, sex, drama and death-from our most respected and admired translators today. Includes appendices from leading scholars like Daniel Mendelsohn.
Mary Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
emerita at Wellesley College. A recipient of the National
Humanities Award, Lefkowitz is the author and editor of numerous
articles and books, including Not Out of Africa- How Afrocentrism
Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History; Greek Gods, Human Lives-
What We Can Learn from Myths; and Euripides & the Gods.
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at
Bard College and the author of several books, including Dying Every
Day- Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne- The Death
of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire. He has
edited numerous translations of ancient Greek texts, including the
Anabasis of Arrian for the volume The Campaigns of Alexander in the
distinguished Landmark Series of Ancient Historians.
“Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm deftly have gathered strong new
translations from Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger,
Emily Wilson, as well as from Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm
themselves. There is a freshness and pungency in these new
translations that should last a long time. I admire also the
introductions to the plays and the biographies and annotations
provided. Closing essays by five distinguished classicists—the
brilliant Daniel Mendelsohn and the equally skilled David
Rosenbloom, Joshua Billings, Mary-Kay Gamel, and Gregory Hays—all
enlightened me. This seems to me a helpful light into our gathering
darkness.”—Harold Bloom
“The reception of Ancient Greek theater is as lively as it’s ever
been in its 2,500-year history, both on the stage and on the page.
Thanks to these sixteen brilliant new renditions by five leading
scholar-translators, the three great Athenian masters of tragic
drama, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, speak to us once again
in powerfully contemporary accents on such fundamental issues as
gender, religion, and democratic politics.”—Paul Cartledge, author
Democracy: A Life
“The Greek Plays is destined to become a perennial collection,
essential reading for students, scholars, and lovers of Greek
tragedy alike. This engaging compilation imbues all the ancient
plays within its pages with new life by offering rich, informative
historical, literary, and cultural context and fresh, accessible
translations by some of the most talented classicists working in
the field today.”—Bryan Doerries, author of The Theater of War:
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
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