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Orestes and Other Plays

8 best books like Orestes and Other Plays (Euripides): The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, Shoulder the Sky, The Sound of His Horn, Leucippe and Clitophon, Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4), The Voyeur's Motel

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140443339
Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, here

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...
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140441123
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...
Shoulder the Sky
AuthorAnne Perry
ISBN0345456556
In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels–which juxtapose the tranquil life...
The Sound of His Horn
AuthorSarban
ISBN0722176511
Alan Querdilion, a young naval lieutenant, is captured by the Germans and wakes up in a hospital bed - more than 100 years later. The Germans have won the war, and the Third Reich stretches from the Urals to the Atlantic. Non Aryans are bred as slaves. Deprived of speech and intelligence by the surgeon's...
Leucippe and Clitophon
AuthorAchilles Tatius
ISBN0192804278
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment,...
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
AuthorMary Lefkowitz
ISBN0801883105
This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new...
Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)
AuthorSophocles
ISBN0226307867
"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...
The Voyeur's Motel
AuthorGay Talese
ISBN0802125816
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,” the letter began, “I feel I have important information...
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