Seven Famous Greek Plays (collective work) (edit title/settings)

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   Prometheus Bound

   by Aeschylus (Author)

   PROMETHEUS Think not that I for pride and stubbornness Am silent: rather is my heart the prey Of gnawing thoughts, both for the past, and now Seeing myself by vengeance buffeted. For to these younger Gods their precedence Who severally...

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   Agamemnon

   by Aeschylus (Author)

   A classic Greek play by Aeschylus it was written in 458 BC. The Play "Agamemnon" tells the story of the the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning...

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   Oedipus the King

   by Sophocles (Author)

   (Also known as Oedipus Rex) One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly...

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   Antigone

   by Sophocles (Author)

   Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful and often-performed Greek drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus.

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   The Frogs

   by Aristophanes (Author)

   This volume of the useful Sommerstein editions of Aristophanes plays this provides the text with facing translation, commentary, and an introduction which explains the political background and discusses the play itself and its reception.

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   Alcestis

   by Euripides (Author)

   Euripides was, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the greatest of Greek dramatists. Alcestis tells the story of a king's grief for his wife, Alcestis, who has given her young life so that he may live.

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   Medea

   by Euripides (Author)

   Witch, barbarian, foreigner, or a woman wronged and committed to the most horrific kind of justice, Medea is a heroine who makes her audience shudder. Euripides shows us an astonishingly strong female protagonist, whom some readers have...

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