Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. The Harvard Classics Volume 8 by Eliot, Charles W. (editor)

P. F. Colliier, 1909. Book. Good. Hardcover. Name on inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Covers moderately worn. Brick-red binding firm..

Danbury, CT: Grolier Enterprises Corp., 1988. Reprint . Faux-Leather. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with pencil marking to 1/2 title page, light foxing to top edge else a bright and solid copy.

New York: P. F. Collier & Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. A selection of 9 Greek dramas, with translations by E. D. A. Morshead, E. H. Plumptre, Gilbert Murray and B. B. Rogers. With introductions and notes, tissue-guarded sepia frontis bust of Aeschylus, another tissue-guarded bust of Euripides and an image of an outdoor amphitheater in ancient Greece. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked though with moderate chafing to extremities of cloth and a scratch to back cover.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 466 pages .

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Cosimo Classics, 2010-02-01. Paperback. Good.

Cosimo Classics, 2010-02-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-01-11. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Danbury, Ct: Groller Enterprises Corp., 190. Special Edition . Hardcover. Mint/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edited by and with an Introduction and Notes by Charles W. Eliot. Includes AESCHYLUS,The House of Atreus Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies (translated by E.D.A. Morehead) and Promethus Bound (translated by E. H. Plumpire), SOPHOCLES Oedipus the King and Antigone (translated by E. H. Plumpire). E URIPIDES Hippolytus and The Bacchae (translated by Gilbert Urray).ARISTOPHANES The Frogs (translated by B B. Rogers). Very handsome two-volume set bound in rich morocca leather with four raised bands on the spines gold cover stampings to front, bac, and spine (designed by Daniel B. Branchi and Selina Ordewer), unmared, full-gilt edges, marble pattern endpapers, and Smyth sewn-in satin ribbon makrer. Mint, unread, condition and will be carefully paced and shipped in a box to inure arrival in described condition.This is the the… Read More

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Paperback. New. 9x6x1.

1909. New York, P.F. Collier, 1909. Octavo. 466 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, some staining to the back cover. [Harvard Classics, 8]. The classical Greeks valued the power of spoken word, and it was their main method of communication and storytelling. Bahn and Bahn write, "To Greeks the spoken word was a living thing and infinitely preferable to the dead symbols of a written language." Socrates himself believed that once something was written down, it lost its ability for change and growth. For these reasons, among many others, oral storytelling flourished in Greece. Greek tragedy as we know it was created in Athens around the time of 532 BCE, when Thespis was the earliest recorded actor. After the Great Destruction of Athens by the Persian Empire in 480 BCE, the town and acropolis were rebuilt, and theatre became formalized and an even greater part of Athenian culture and civic pride. This century is normally regarded as the Golden Age of… Read More