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The Trials of Socrates by Plato
epub |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Plato

1. See Apology 33e1 note. 2. Legend had it that Athens was once obliged to send King Minos of Crete an annual tribute of seven young men and seven maidens ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 28,2020 )
The Persians and Other Plays by Aeschylus & Alan H. Sommerstein
epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Aeschylus & Alan H. Sommerstein

[By now the CHORUS are all seated close to the altar, on which they have laid some of their suppliant-branches. PELASGUS enters from the direction of the city, in a ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox & Bernard Knox
epub |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox & Bernard Knox

OEDIPUS: . But why? If I’m their son—Merope, Polybus? MESSENGER: Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood. OEDIPUS: What are you saying—Po!ybus was not my father? MESSENGER: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
epub |eng | 1953-04-18 | Author:Sophocles

WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Greek Tragedy (Penguin Classics) by Euripides & Aeschylus & Sophocles
mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Euripides & Aeschylus & Sophocles

( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
azw3 |eng | 1996-09-25 | Author:Aristotle

14. Reference conventions Like many translators of the Poetics I have divided the text into sections and sub-sections to help the reader follow the structure of Aristotle’s exposition. These divisions, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Persians and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus
azw3 |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Aeschylus

[By now the CHORUS are all seated close to the altar, on which they have laid some of their suppliant-branches. PELASGUS enters from the direction of the city, in a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
azw3 |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Aeschylus

CASSANDRA: Look out! look out!— Ai, drag the great bull from the mate! - a thrash of robes, she traps him - writhing- black horn glints, twists - she gores ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Plays and Fragments (Classics) by Menander
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Menander

ACT ONE SCENE: a street in Corinth. There are two houses, one belonging to Myrrhine, the other to Polemon. Pataikos’s house may have been shown, but it is nowhere necessary ...
( Category: Playwriting April 19,2020 )
Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Sophocles

WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Rope and Other Plays (Classics) by Plautus
azw3 |eng | 2007-04-25 | Author:Plautus

A Three-Dollar Day (TRINUMMUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO A THREE-DOLLAR DAY THE Prologue informs us that this play is derived from the Greek of Philemon, and there are reasons for believing ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes
azw3 |eng | 2003-09-24 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
azw3 |eng | 2006-01-25 | Author:Euripides

Her entreaties and appeals to her father, and her maiden’s years – in their love for battle the officers set this at naught; her father after praying gave an order ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
azw3, pdf |eng | 1984-02-06 | Author:Sophocles

OEDIPUS: . But why? If I’m their son—Merope, Polybus? MESSENGER: Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood. OEDIPUS: What are you saying—Po!ybus was not my father? MESSENGER: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )

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