The Seven Against Thebes
8 best books like The Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus): The Bacchae, Electra, Women of Trachis, Helen, Cyclops, Hecuba, The Phoenician Women, Hippolytus
The Bacchae
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 1854594117 |
“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...
Electra
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 1854597566 |
Women of Trachis
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 0195070097 |
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0195077105 |
28 April 2013
This is probably one of my all time favourite Greek plays, namely because Euripides takes a well known Greek epic and completely turns it on its head. I actually studied this particular play in Greek and Roman Drama and the focus of the lectures was...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0195143035 |
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0906515173 |
2 Mar 2012
It looks like Goodreads has taken the Latin title for this play (Hecuba) to which Philip Vellacott, the translator of the version that I read, takes serious offence. Personally, being a Philhelline (a lover of Greek culture) I pretty much agree with...
The Phoenician Women
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0195077083 |
Euripides (ca. 480-406 BCE) - Roman copy of a 4th century BCE Greek original
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Men do not really own their private goods;
we simply care for the things which are the gods',
and when they will, they take them back again.
Euripides,...
Hippolytus
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0929524101 |