Oxford Readings In Greek Tragedy

Download or read book Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy written by Erich Segal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek tragedy, the fountainhead of all western drama, is widely read by students in a variety of disciplines. Segal here presents twenty-nine of the finest modern essays on the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. All Greek has been translated, but the original footnotes have been retained. Contributors include Anne Burnett, E.R. Dodds, Bernard M.W. Knox, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Karl Reinhardt, Jacqueline de Romilly, Bruno Snell, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Cedric Whitman.