Greek Tragedies, Volume 1
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 1
| Full title | Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus |
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| Author | Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides |
| Pages | 336 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The first volume of the Chicago selection from the Complete Greek Tragedies, the American teaching standard since the 1950s: Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles’s Oedipus the King and Antigone*, and Euripides’s* Hippolytus — the five plays most likely to be assigned first, including the founding texts on obedience to an unjust law and on inherited blood-guilt. |
Greek Tragedies, Volume 1
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, in the Ages 13–99+ band under Drama. The list cards all three volumes of this set separately.
About this edition
The card links the third edition (2013), which keeps the David Grene and Richmond Lattimore translations but adds per-play introductions and textual notes. The list credits Grene as author; he is the volume’s co-editor and translator.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides — the three tragedians the set collects.
- David Grene — co-editor and a principal translator of the series; the list credited him as author.
- Greek Tragedies, Volume 2 and Greek Tragedies, Volume 3 — the rest of the set, both on the list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.