Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Aeschylus, I, Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound
- Aeschylus
- Edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein
- Hardcover 2009
- Aeschylus, II, The Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides
- Aeschylus
- Edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein
- Hardcover 2009
- Aeschylus, III, Fragments
- Aeschylus
- Edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein
- Hardcover 2008
- Aristophanes, IV, Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth
- Aristophanes
- Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson
- Frogswas produced in 405 BCE, shortly after the deaths of Sophocles and Euripides. Dionysus, on a journey to the underworld to retrieve Euripides, is recruited to judge a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and the modern Euripides, a contest that yields both comedy and insight on ancient literary taste. In Assemblywomen Athenian women plot to save Athens from male misgovernance. They institute a new social order in which all inequalities based on wealth, age, and beauty are eliminated--with raucously comical results. The gentle humor and straightforward morality of Wealth made it the most popular of Aristophanes' plays from classical times to the Renaissance. Here the god Wealth, cured of his blindness, is newly able to distinguish good people from bad.
- Hardcover 2002
- The Death of Comedy
- Erich Segal
- In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Demons and Dancers
- Ruth Webb
- Hardcover 2008
- Euripides, II, Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba
- Euripides
- Edited and translated by David Kovacs
- Hippolytus has been judged to be one of Euripides' masterpieces. Hecuba and Andromache recreate the tragic stories of two noble Trojan women after their city's fall. Children of Heracles celebrates an incident long a source of Athenian pride: the city's protection of the sons and daughters of the dead Heracles.
- Hardcover 1995
- Euripides, IV, Trojan Women. Iphigenia among the Taurians. Ion
- Euripides
- Edited and translated by David Kovacs
- Trojan Women, a play about the causes and consequences of war, develops the theme of the tragic unpredictability of life. Iphigenia among the Taurians and Ion exhibit tragic themes and situations (the murder of close relatives); each ends happily with a joyful reunion.
- Hardcover 1999
- Euripides, V, Helen. Phoenician Women. Orestes
- Euripides
- Edited and translated by David Kovacs
- In this fifth volume of the new Loeb Classical Library Euripides, in Helen the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous Helen never went to Troy but spent the war years in Egypt, falsely blamed for the adulterous behavior of her divinely created double in Troy. This volume also includes Phoenician Women, Euripides' treatment of the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, a novel retelling of Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother, Clytaemestra. Each play is annotated and prefaced by a helpful introduction.
- Hardcover 2002
- Euripides, VI, Bacchae. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus
- Euripides
- Edited and translated by David Kovacs
- This volume completes the new six-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of Euripides's plays. David Kovacs presents a faithful and skillfully worded translation of the three plays, facing a freshly edited Greek text.
- Hardcover 2003
- Euripides, VII, Fragments
- Euripides
- Edited and translated by Christopher Collard
- Edited and translated by Martin Cropp
- The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians. This edition offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Feast of Poetry
- Pavlos Sfyroeras
- Situated at the intersection of various approaches to the comic genre, this book adopts a synchronic viewpoint to focus on comedy within the dramatic festival of Dionysus. By inscribing Aristophanes's plays in the poetic and ritual traditions of Greece, it attempts to reconstruct a fifth-century view of the performance of comedy as a sacrificial offering that both honors the god and is shared by the assembled citizen body.
- Paperback
- Menander, II, Heros. Theophoroumene. Karchedonios. Kitharistes. Kolax. Koneiazomenai. Leukadia. Misoumenos. Perikeiromene. Perinthia
- Menander
- W. G. Arnott, Translator
- Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays. Among these are the recently published fragments of Misoumenos ("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving half of Perikeiromene ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel.
- Hardcover 1997
- Miles Gloriosus
- Plautus
- Mason Hammond, Editor
- Arthur W. Mack, Editor
- Walter Moskalew, Editor
- Miles Gloriosus or "Braggart Warrior" is one of the best-known and liveliest Roman comedies. It shows Plautus at his ablest in ingenious plot construction, vivid characterization, fast-moving action, and humorous dialogue.
- Paperback 1997
- Seneca, IX, Tragedies II
- Seneca
- John G. Fitch, Ed. and Trans.
- Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. This volume completes the Loeb Classical Library's new two-volume edition of Seneca's tragedies. John Fitch's annotated translation conveys the force of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his choral odes.
- Hardcover 2004
- Seneca, VIII, Tragedies I
- Seneca
- John G. Fitch, Ed. and Trans.
- Here is the first of a new two-volume edition of Seneca's tragedies, with a fully annotated translation facing the Latin text. Seneca's plays depict intense passions and interactions in an appropriately strong rhetoric. Their perspective is much bleaker than that of his prose writings. In this new translation John Fitch conveys the force of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his choral odes.
- Hardcover 2002
- Sophocles' Tragic World
- Charles Segal
- In a series of interconnected essays, Charles Segal studies five of Sophocles' seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Antigone, and the often neglected Trachinian Women.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- Sophocles, III, Fragments
- Sophocles
- Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
- Sophocles, by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete, but we have a wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. This volume presents, in Greek and facing English translation, a collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of the known plays. Among the lost plays of which we have large fragments, The Searchers shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing trick on his brother Apollo; Inachus portrays Zeus coming to Argos to seduce Io, the daughter of its king; and Niobe tells how Apollo and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother by killing her twelve children. Throughout the volume, as in the extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his subjects from heroic legend.
- Hardcover 1996
- Written Voices, Spoken Signs
- Egbert J. Bakker, Editor
- Ahuvia Kahane, Editor
- Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on language and social exchange, the nine innovative essays in this volume--by leading scholars of Homer, oral poetics, and epic--focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry.
- Hardcover 1997