Four Tragedies and Octavia (Thyestes, Phaedra, Troades, Oedipus, Octavia)
10 best books like Four Tragedies and Octavia (Thyestes, Phaedra, Troades, Oedipus, Octavia) (Seneca): The Twelve Caesars, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Persian Expedition, Ten Plays, The Sixteen Satires, The Odes, Heroides, Selected Letters, The Eclogues, The Comedies
| Author | Suetonius |
| ISBN | 0140449213 |
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded...
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140441123 |
This is a review of Prometheus Bound. Reviews of other plays in the same book are found elsewhere (see below)
Peter Paul Rubens
Prometheus, discoursing on his gifts to mankind:
... At first
Mindless, I gave them mind and reason. - What I say
Is not censure...
| Author | Xenophon |
| ISBN | 0140440070 |
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0553213636 |
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For...
| Author | Juvenal |
| ISBN | 0140447040 |
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor, and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and...
'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' —C. M. Bowra
Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece—a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and...
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0140444580 |
The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminated his correspondence with both close friends and powerful aristocrats. A chronicle of a crumbling civilization...
Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their phrasing, the poems in Virgil's first collection...
Terence Theatre complete
Terence flourished in the second century BC and was a prosperous Roman playwright and the initiator of European comic drama.
His plays are inspired if not wholly copied from Greek poets like Menander and others.
This edition is the collection of...
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 0226307867 |
"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...
Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this fascinating history, events are described not simply...
