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Paperback. A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - as the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest for students of ancient literature: as the only extended account of the Persian wars by an author who fought in .. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685972
ISBN
9780856685972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.85

Paperback. Translator(s): Collard, Christopher. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537815
ISBN
9780199537815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.67

Paperback. An accurate and highly readable new translation with introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and up-to-date bibliography of four of Aeschylus' plays, including the unique historical tragedy Persians and the hugely influential Prometheus Bound. Translator(s): Collard, Christopher. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3D; DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192832825
ISBN
9780192832825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Dutta, Shomit; Goldhill, Simon. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141439365
ISBN
9780141439365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.44

Paperback. A king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution. Editor(s): Stanford, W. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliog. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443332
ISBN
9780140443332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.00

Paperback. The great trilogy that is the wellspring of Western drama. Series: Drama Classics S. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 105 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854591739
ISBN
9781854591739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.43

Paperback. Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king. Translator(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449990
ISBN
9780140449990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.44

Paperback. Aeschylus' Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs - tokens of supplication - arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
374
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908343345
ISBN
9781908343345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.88

Paperback. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 212 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Third
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226311449
ISBN
9780226311449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.08

Paperback. After the Fall of Troy, King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. Translator(s): Vellacott, Philip. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
SKU
KTG0010071
ISBN
9780140440676
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. This translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology. Editor(s): Vellacott, Philip. Translator(s): Vellacott, Philip. Num Pages: 160 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KKD0001050
ISBN
9780140441123
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 4. Weight in Grams: 60.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486287621
ISBN
9780486287621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

Paperback. Translator(s): Grene, David; O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Later Printing
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226007724
ISBN
9780226007724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.20

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856683824
ISBN
9780856683824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.54

paperback. "What David Slavitt does, as the early Roman poets did, is to take a poem as his 'model' and make it his own by creating in late twentieth-century English an appropriate equivalent of the ancient poem. His Oresteia is the most lively and readable version known to me."-Gordon Williams Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780812216271
ISBN
9780812216271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback.
Publisher
Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1954
Edition
Acting
Condition
New
SKU
V9780573015229
ISBN
9780573015229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.27

Paperback. Series: Acting Edition S. Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 89 x 3. Weight in Grams: 42.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
SKU
V9780573020049
ISBN
9780573020049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.03

Paperback. A Tempest is Aime Cesaire's anti-colonialist retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Translator(s): Crispin, Philip. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840021431
ISBN
9781840021431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.62

Paperback. A play exploring language, globalisation, solidarity and class through the struggles of a young African mother trying to care for her child in Glasgow. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 127 x 5. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783190201
ISBN
9781783190201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.31

Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350028081
ISBN
9781350028081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.34

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