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Aeschylus
Aeschylus
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Description for Aeschylus
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.
The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Series
Penn Greek Drama Series
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812216271
SKU
V9780812216271
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About Aeschylus
David R. Slavitt was educated at Andover and Yale and has published more than sixty books: original poetry (recently Eight Longer Poems), translations (recently Broken Columns, of Statius and Claudian), novels (recently Lives of the Saints), critical works (recently Virgil), and short stories. He worked for seven years as a journalist at Newsweek and continues to do freelance reporting and ... Read more
Reviews for Aeschylus
"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
"A boon for classicists and general readers alike. ... Read more
Gordon Williams
"A boon for classicists and general readers alike. ... Read more