Ancient & Classical
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Antigone: A Norton Critical Edition
$14.06 Add to cartThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Sheila Murnaghan’s celebrated new translation of Sophocles’ famed Greek tragedy depicting the deadly conflict between Antigone–daughter of Oedipus–and her unc
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0393655180
- Language: English
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Ph?dre: ?dition Bilingue
$16.00 Add to cartRacine’s play Ph?dre–which draws on Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus–is the supreme achievement of French neoclassic theater. In her amusing foreword, Margaret Rawlings explains how this particular tra… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Racine, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445919
- Language: English
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Read moreChicago’s renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume.
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844692
- Language: English
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The Greek Plays 2: Ajax in Iraq, Kissing the Floor, Penelope, Mercury’s Footpath, and the Oresteia
$26.95 Add to cartEllen McLaughlin returns with a new collection of adaptations and modern reimaginings of classic Greek tragedies. Drawing on works by Sophocles, Homer, Aeschylus and more, these plays breathe fresh li
- Author: McLaughlin, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1559369914
- Language: English
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Penelopiad
$16.95 Add to cartMargaret Atwood’s acclaimed stage adaptation of Homer.
As portrayed in Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope – wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy – has become a symbol of wifely duty and- Series: Faber Drama
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0571239498
- Language: English
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Oedipus Kolonos PB
$9.99 Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dyna
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132105
- Language: English
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Aias
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0195128192
- Language: English
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Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
$17.00 Read moreFresh, new translations of Sophocles’s three Theban plays by acclaimed theater director Bryan Doerries, which emphasize the contemporary relevance of these classic Greek tragedies.
Here are Oedipus th- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314956
- Language: English
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Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold
$10.95 Add to cartPlautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Moliere’s the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plautus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954056X
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King
$6.99 Add to cartThe famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.
A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Fre- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1416500332
- Language: English
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Six Tragedies
$13.95 Add to cartHere is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers–the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0192807064
- Language: English
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Greek Drama
$6.99 Add to cart- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hadas, Moses
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212214
- Language: English
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Magic of the Runes: And Spiritual Secrets of Virgil’s Aeneid
$15.95 Add to cartSpiritual development requires enormous amounts of energy, thus those who aspire towards the blossoming of the soul need methods of acquiring and utilizing energy. Hidden in the runes we can find such… [more below]
- Series: Timeless Gnostic Wisdom
- Author: Aun Weor, Samael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934206296
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
$18.95 Add to cartThe citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent c
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091568
- Language: English
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume of Euripides’ plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy’s survivors are harrowingly depicted. With un… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538816
- Language: English
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays
$7.95 Read moreWith new translations and a new afterword
The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche’s revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of th- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531531
- Language: English
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The Trojan Women: A Comic
$19.95 Read moreHere is a new comic-book version of Euripides’s classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collabora… [more below]
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230791
- Language: English
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Bakkhai
$14.95 Read moreAnne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended con… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0811227103
- Language: English
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Lysistrata
$4.99 Add to cartLysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the soldier’s bedroom. Wives from both camps deny their husbands basic affectio
- Series: Mint Editions (Plays)
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1513267949
- Language: English
