- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (Jan 12 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195179102
- ISBN-13: 978-0195179101
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.5 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #840,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for the series: "Enthusiastically recommended...produces a language that is easy to read and easy to speak. The translators' notes describe the linguistic twists and turns involved in rendering the text into a modern poetic language."--Library Journal [starred review]
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The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more than faithful to the original text, going beyond the literal meaning in order to evoke the poetic intensity and rich metaphorical texture of the Greek language. The Trojan Women describes with unparalleled intensity the horrific brutality that both women and children undergo at the end of the Trojan War, but in the end it is a play that insists on the victory of spirit amid the horrors created by gods and men. Poet and English professor Alan Shapiro, together with noted Greek scholar, translator, and Classics professor Peter Burian, bring into their own words the Aeschylean vision of a world fraught with spiritual and political tensions, disordered by an irrational war.
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The fruits of defeat, May 10 2012
By Tony Marquise Jr. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Trojan Women (Paperback)
This play shows, better than any other I have read, the results of defeat in war. The women are the wives and mothers of the men of Troy, killed by the Greeks in The Trojan War. Their homes have been sacked and burned by the Greeks. They have nothing and have no future. One of the greatest plays ever written, this play should be read by every person on earth.
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