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aesChylus
525 – 456 B.C., greek
euridiPes
c. 484 – 406 B.C., greek
soPhoCles
496 – 406 B.C., greek
Greek Tragedy
Translated by E. F. Watling,
Philip Vellacott, Shomit Dutta, and
Malcolm Heath
Edited by Shomit Dutta
Introduction by Simon Goodhill
Containing Aeschylus’ Agamemnon,
Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and Euripides’
Medea, this important new selection
brings the best works of the great
tragedians together in one perfect
introductory volume. This volume also
includes extracts from Aristophanes’
comedy The Frogs and a selection from
Aristotle’s Poetics.
352 pp. 978-0-14-14-143936-5 $15.00
aesoP
c. 6th cent. b.c., greek
The Complete Fables
Translated by Olivia and Robert Temple
with an Introduction by Robert Temple
This definitive and fully annotated
modern edition is the first translation ever
to make available the complete corpus of
358 fables attributed to Aesop. Revealing
a rawer, racier, very adult aesthetic, this
version includes 100 fables not previously
published in English.
288 pp. 978-0-14-044649-4 $12.00
See The Portable Greek Reader.
aesoP
Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century
b.c. on the Greek island of Samos, who represented his masters in court and
relied on animal stories to put across his key points. However, the Aesop known
to the ancient Greeks and Romans was quite different from the one generally
known to modern English speakers. As was the custom with translations of
ancient texts from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth century,
editions of Aesop’s fables were very selective and expunged of material deemed
offensive to Victorian decorum. Far from being the author of edifying children’s
stories, the real Aesop was a man who cloaked a rather grim yet pragmatic vision
of human life in the tales of nature.
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