The Complete Greek Tragedies (5 Volumes)

Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides
London: The Folio Society, 2011.
First Folio Printing.

25cm x 16.5cm. 5 volumes. Brown decorative cloth in gilt and black, slipcase.

The complete set, being: 1. Aeschylus, the Oresteia, translated by Richmond Lattimore, Agamemnon, the libation bearers, the Eumenindes, the suppliant maidens, translated by Seth G. Benardete, the Persians, translated by Seth G. Benardete, seven against Thebes, translated by David Grene, Prometheus bound, translated by David Grene, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Ruth Padel. 2. Sophocles, the Theban plays, translated by David Grene, Oedipus the king, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, translated by John Moore, the women of Trachis, translated by Michael Jameson, Electra, translated by David Grene, Philoctetes, translated by David Grene, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Simon Goldhill. 3. Euripides I, Rhesus, translated by Richmond Lattimore, the Trojan women, translated by Richmond Lattimore, Hecuba, translated by William Arrowsmith, Andromache, translated by John Frederick Nims, Helen, translated by Richmond Lattimore, the Cyclops, translated by William Arrowsmith, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Lawrence Norfolk. 4. Euripides II, Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by Charles R. Walker, Electra, translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule, Orestes, translated by William Arrowsmith, Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Witter Bynner, introduced by Richmond Lattimore, Medea, translated by Rex Warner, Hippolytus, translated by David Grene, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Germaine Greer. 5. Alcestis, translated by Richmond Lattimore, Ion, translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts, Heracles, translated by William Arrowsmith, the Heracleidae, translated by Ralph Gladstone, the Phoenician women, translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff, the suppliant women, translated by Frank Jones, the Bacchae, translated by William Arrowsmith, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Peter Stothard. FORD-SMITH 1691.

The books are in Fine Condition. Very minor foxing to inside of slipcase. Bump to bottom panel of slipcase. Very Good Condition.

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