Greek Tragedies, Volume 2
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 2
| Full title | Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women |
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| Author | Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides |
| Pages | 328 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The same act of vengeance staged three times — Aeschylus’s Libation Bearers, Sophocles’s Electra and Euripides’s Electra — to three different verdicts, plus Iphigenia among the Taurians and The Trojan Women, the bluntest anti-war play to survive from antiquity. The closest thing the ancient theatre offers to a controlled experiment in how a story’s moral changes with who is telling it. |
Greek Tragedies, Volume 2
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, listed under Drama in the Ages 13-99+ band (Lexile 1130).
About this edition
The middle volume of the three-volume University of Chicago selection edited and translated by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore; all three are carded separately.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides — all three appear in this volume on the same story.
- David Grene — co-editor and translator; credited as author by the list.
- Greek Tragedies, Volume 1 and Greek Tragedies, Volume 3 — the rest of the set.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.