David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought. Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. Mark Griffith is Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

• How the Plays Were Originally StagedI. AeschylusIntroduction to AeschylusThe Persians, Translated by Seth BenardetePrometheus Bound, Translated by David GreneThe OresteiaAgamemnon, Translated by Richmond LattimoreThe Libation Bearers, Translated by Richmond LattimoreThe Eumenides, Translated by Richmond LattimoreII. SophoclesIntroduction to SophoclesThe Theban PlaysAntigone, Translated by Elizabeth WyckoffOedipus the King, Translated by David GreneOedipus at Colonus, Translated by Robert FitzgeraldElectra, Translated by David GreneIII. EuripidesIntroduction to EuripidesAlcestis, Translated by Richmond LattimoreMedea, Translated by Oliver TaplinHippolytus, Translated by David GreneHecuba, Translated by William ArrowsmithElectra, Translated by Emily Townsend VermeuleThe Trojan Women, Translated by Richmond LattimoreIphigenia among the Taurians, Translated by Anne CarsonThe Bacchae, Translated by William ArrowsmithTextual Notes

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David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought. Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. Mark Griffith is Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

• How the Plays Were Originally StagedI. AeschylusIntroduction to AeschylusThe Persians, Translated by Seth BenardetePrometheus Bound, Translated by David GreneThe OresteiaAgamemnon, Translated by Richmond LattimoreThe Libation Bearers, Translated by Richmond LattimoreThe Eumenides, Translated by Richmond LattimoreII. SophoclesIntroduction to SophoclesThe Theban PlaysAntigone, Translated by Elizabeth WyckoffOedipus the King, Translated by David GreneOedipus at Colonus, Translated by Robert FitzgeraldElectra, Translated by David GreneIII. EuripidesIntroduction to EuripidesAlcestis, Translated by Richmond LattimoreMedea, Translated by Oliver TaplinHippolytus, Translated by David GreneHecuba, Translated by William ArrowsmithElectra, Translated by Emily Townsend VermeuleThe Trojan Women, Translated by Richmond LattimoreIphigenia among the Taurians, Translated by Anne CarsonThe Bacchae, Translated by William ArrowsmithTextual Notes

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David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought. Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. Mark Griffith is Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

• How the Plays Were Originally StagedI. AeschylusIntroduction to AeschylusThe Persians, Translated by Seth BenardetePrometheus Bound, Translated by David GreneThe OresteiaAgamemnon, Translated by Richmond LattimoreThe Libation Bearers, Translated by Richmond LattimoreThe Eumenides, Translated by Richmond LattimoreII. SophoclesIntroduction to SophoclesThe Theban PlaysAntigone, Translated by Elizabeth WyckoffOedipus the King, Translated by David GreneOedipus at Colonus, Translated by Robert FitzgeraldElectra, Translated by David GreneIII. EuripidesIntroduction to EuripidesAlcestis, Translated by Richmond LattimoreMedea, Translated by Oliver TaplinHippolytus, Translated by David GreneHecuba, Translated by William ArrowsmithElectra, Translated by Emily Townsend VermeuleThe Trojan Women, Translated by Richmond LattimoreIphigenia among the Taurians, Translated by Anne CarsonThe Bacchae, Translated by William ArrowsmithTextual Notes

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