num_pages: 2124
description: Volume I - Aeschylus• The Oresteia (Agamemnon/The Libation Bearers/The Eumenides)• The Suppliant Maidens• The Persians• Seven Against Thebes• Prometheus BoundVolume II - Sophocles• 'The Theban Plays' (Oedipus The King/Oedipus At Colonus/Antigone)• Ajax• The Women Of Trachis• Electra• PhiloctetesVolume III - Euripides 1 • Alcestis• The Medea• The Heracleidae• Hippolytus• Cyclops• Heracles• Iphigenia In Tauris• Helen• Hecuba• Andromache• The Trojan WomenVolume IV - Euripides 2• Ion• Rhesus• The Suppliant Women• Orestes• Iphigenia In Aulis• Electra• The Phoenicians• The Bacchae"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."—Times Education Supplement"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."—Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."—Commonweal"Grene is one of the great translators."—Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."—Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: The Complete Greek Tragedies
titlecomplete: The Complete Greek Tragedies (4-vol. set)
genres: Fiction, Plays, Classics, Drama, Mythology, Literature
ratings_count: 70
publisher: University of Chicago Press