A Guide to Ancient Greek DramaThis newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC.
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Contents
Play Synopses | 7 |
Aeschylus Suppliants | 44 |
Aeschylus Agamemnon | 51 |
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound | 60 |
Sophokles Ajax | 68 |
Greek Tragedy | 73 |
Sophokles Trachinian Women | 81 |
Euripides Children of Herakles | 99 |
The SatyrDrama | 159 |
Euripides Hecuba | 171 |
5 | 237 |
Menanders Samian Woman | 303 |
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