The Complete Greek Tragedies

This anthology collects the surviving Attic tragedies of the fifth century BCE: the seven extant plays of Aeschylus, the seven of Sophocles, and the nineteen of Euripides (some editions add the doubtful Rhesus). The dramas stage mythic royal houses - the Atreids, Oedipus and his children, Heracles, Medea, the Trojan women - before a civic audience, with chorus, debate, and catastrophe. Typical subjects are pollution, revenge, war, and the limits of human knowledge before the gods. The volume is a complete tragic corpus in translation, not a history of Athens and not a single author's cycle.

Prefaces for each volume by Ruth Padel, Simon Goldhill, Peter Stothard, Lawrence Norfolk and Germaine Greer. Translations from the University of Chicago editions. 33 tipped in colour plates of art works. Each volume features a bust of the playwright as its frontispiece. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spines and blocked designs to sides. Orange-brown slipcase decorated and with title.