Greek Tragedies, Volume 3
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 3
| Full title | Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis |
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| Author | Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides |
| Pages | 344 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The closing volume of the Chicago Greek tragedies: Aeschylus’s The Eumenides, Sophocles’s Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus, and Euripides’s The Bacchae and Alcestis. The Eumenides is the reason a list about citizenship wants this volume — the founding myth of the court as the institution that ends private vengeance. |
Greek Tragedies, Volume 3
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published in December 2025, in the Ages 13-99+ band under Drama (Lexile 1130).
About this edition
Volume 3 of three, all carded separately; the third edition (2013) runs 344 pages. The translations are edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore — the list credits Grene as the author. Oedipus at Colonus also appears, in Robert Fagles’s translation, in The Three Theban Plays, which the same list cards separately.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides — the three tragedians.
- David Grene — co-editor and translator; credited as author by the list.
- Greek Tragedies, Volume 1 and Greek Tragedies, Volume 2 — the rest of the set.
- The Three Theban Plays — overlaps on Oedipus at Colonus, in Fagles’s translation.
What links here
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