Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 1)

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UPC:
9780226307787
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1969-05-15
Author:
Aeschylus
Language:
english
Edition:
2
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These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket. Robert Brustein, The New Republic

This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody. Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation

The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase. Times Education Supplement

These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead. Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian

The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional. Commonweal

Grene is one of the great translators. Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times

Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet. Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review