Greek & Roman 5

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing tou……続きを見る

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter i……続きを見る

Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago,……続きを見る

When Elizabeth Báthory discovers that the blood of maidens will keep her young, she sets off on a bloody killing spree that lasts for years and results in the deaths of hundreds. When she is finally……続きを見る

Classic Roman comedy. According to Wikipedia, "Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are among the earliest su……続きを見る

Euripides II contains the plays “Andromache,” translated by Deborah Roberts; “Hecuba,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Suppliant Women,” translated by Frank William Jones; and “Electra,” tran……続きを見る

The final play of THE ORESTEIA, THE EUMENIDES (the Furies) addresses the subject of Orestes' guilt. Aeschylus (c. 524 BC – c. 455 BC) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose wor……続きを見る

The first drama in the Oedipus Trilogy, "Oedipus Rex", is the tragic tale of Oedipus who has accidentally killed his father and married his mother. One of the most widely read of all Greek tragedies……続きを見る

Classic Roman comedy play. With active table of contents. According to Wikipedia, "Restoration poet and playwright Sir Charles Sedley modelled his comedy Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687) partly on……続きを見る

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains the eleven extant comedies by the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes.  One of the foremost of the Old Comedy playwrights, Aristophanes penned at leas……続きを見る

Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well a……続きを見る

Euripides (circa 480 – 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but a……続きを見る

Captain Blood, published in 1922, is a swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini. It chronicles the Odyssey of Peter Blood, an Irish Physician, from his arrest for rebellion in England to his……続きを見る

THE WASPS, dating to 422 BC, lampoons the law courts and the demagogue Cleon of ancient Athens. Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  Eleven of his ap……続きを見る

The Sound of Whimpering with a cast of 13. Interplay between the nomads and the djinn. The story is an old legend where once upon a time a djinn fell in love with a human and the consequences that f……続きを見る

A challenging, wide-ranging collection of monologues from history’s greatest dramatic works From the stately and poetic Greek tragedies to the lively, bawdy Restoration comedies, the classical reper……続きを見る

I have not forgotten, with a cast of 11. Set in Italy Rome, and ancient dispute between two groups of immortals, the Vampires and the Enchanted Classical statues that come to life at night. 続きを見る

Traduzione e adattamento teatrale del Ciclope di Euripide. 続きを見る

SEVEN AGAINST THEBES tells of two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, who agree to share the throne of Thebes. After a year this arrangement breaks down, leading to fratricide and civil war. Aeschylus……続きを見る

One of the lesser known plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles, "Electra" tells the tale of a young daughter's revenge for her father's death. Electra is one of the daughters of Agamemnon, the leade……続きを見る

Produced the same year as LYSISTRATA, THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE is considered one of the most brilliant of Aristophanes' extant plays.  The play focuses on the role of women in a male-dominated so……続きを見る

Lysistrata (or "Army-disbander") is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mi……続きを見る

A story of the daughter of the legendary Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Cleopatra Selene. A princess to become queen of her own right but not of her homeland of Egypt as it was lost to Rome. Follow this re……続きを見る

The Trojan Women By Euripides The consummation of a great conquest, a thing celebrated in paeans and thanksgivings, the very height of the day-dreams of the unregenerate man - it seems to be a great……続きを見る

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal f……続きを見る

These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest survivin……続きを見る

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in Ne……続きを見る

In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and gra……続きを見る

THE SEVEN PLAYS OF AESCHYLUS contains the seven surviving works of the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus, who wrote perhaps eighty works during his lifetime. Includes an active table of contents for……続きを見る

Classic Roman comedy play. With active table of contents. According to Wikipedia, "Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) is a play written by Publius Terentius Afer, known in English as Terence, ……続きを見る