Let’s explore those questions as we look at the books. First up we have Aeschylus’Oresteia. This is a trilogy of plays—what do they tell us about the rule of law? TheOresteiais an immense political and legal allegory. It’s about the replacement of a world in which justice meant ve...
--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 quick...
Some classical fans will be familiar withLes choéphores, recorded most memorably by Igor Markevitch and Leonard Bernstein; far fewer will have heardL'AgamemnonandLes euménides. To have recorded all of these Aeschylus settings together for the first time is a spectacular accomplishment. So while t...
Offers translations of Euripides' Medea , The Children of Heracles , Andromache , and Iphigenia among the Taurians , fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers . In this title,...Sophocles...