Miles Gloriosus

7 best books like Miles Gloriosus (Plautus): Medea, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, The Bacchae, Poetics, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, Clouds, Hippolytus

Medea

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0486275485

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea. Having married Medea and fathered her two children, Jason abandons her for a more favorable...

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Author	Aeschylus
ISBN	0140443339

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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...

The Bacchae

Author	Euripides
ISBN	1854594117

Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.

“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"

- The Young...

Poetics

Author	Aristotle
ISBN	0140446362

‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’

In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...

Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica

Author	Horace
ISBN	0674992148

In the two books of "Satires" Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of "Epistles" are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the "Ars Poetica." The "Epodes" in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace...

Clouds

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0198143958

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and extensive notes and commentary. Dover examines the two versions of the play, recounts the history of the text, and analyzes a number of problems surrounding the play's overall interpretation, including...

Hippolytus

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0929524101

Two book set: individual Commentary and Text. Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts...