The Eclogues
10 best books like The Eclogues (Virgil): The Agricola and The Germania, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Metamorphoses, Theogony / Works and Days, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Bacchae, Heroides, Odes and Epodes, Four Tragedies and Octavia (Thyestes, Phaedra, Troades, Oedipus, Octavia), Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0140442413 |
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country,...
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...
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...
| 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 | 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...
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 | Horace |
| ISBN | 0674996097 |
The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text. Horace took...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0140441743 |
Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra...
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 0226307867 |
"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic
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"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought...
| 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...
