Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

6 best books like Prometheus Bound and Other Plays (Aeschylus): Metamorphoses, Theogony / Works and Days, Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen, Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4), Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds, The Birds and Other Plays

Metamorphoses

Author

Ovid

Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...

Theogony / Works and Days

Author	Hesiod
ISBN	0192839411

Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a...

Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0226307816

This volume contains the following tragedies by Euripides:

1. The Cyclops, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith
2. Heracles, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith
3. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Witter Bynner and with an introduction...

Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)

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...

Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0140442871

Aristophanes (c.447-385 B.C.), a contemporary of Socrates, was the last and greatest of the Old Attic comedians.Only eleven of his plays survive, and this volume contains Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians, a plea for peace set against the background of the long...

The Birds and Other Plays

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0140449515

Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein.

The...