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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Trojan Women Trojan Women Euripides "The Trojan Women" is a play by the 5th century B.C. Greek dramatist Euripides. The story takes place at the end of the Trojan war and is focused on the Greeks' division of the spoils, who happen to… OL10306670W
Women on the edge Women on the edge Euripides *Women on the Edge*, a collection of *Alcestis*, *Medea*, *Helen*, and *Iphegenia at Aulis*, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving w… OL15006442W
The Complete Plays of Sophocles The Complete Plays of Sophocles Sophocles The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vivid and dynamic new translations by award-winning poets Robert Bagg and James Scully The dominant Athenian playwright in fifth-century-BCE Athens, … OL16759463W
The Suppliant Women The Suppliant Women Aeschylus 47 pages ; 20 cm OL20598521W
Six Greek Tragedies Six Greek Tragedies Marianne McDonald The work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides became the touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. This volume contains 'Persians', 'Prometheus Bound', 'Women of Trachis', 'Ph… OL2452019W
Ion Ion Euripides he Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work su… OL66496W
Hippolytus Hippolytus Euripides,Euripides Euripides wrote two plays called Hippolytus. In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as i… OL66497W
Eumenides Eumenides Aeschylus Eumenides is the third play in Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, consisting of Agamemnon, Orestes, and the Eumenides. The play deals with the resolution of Orestes's guilt in the murder of his mother, Cl… OL856897W