Aeschylus Morshead E D a Translator (8 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Free 1st class upgrade from standard. One inch tear at the top of the front cover, otherwise VG+ condition. The binding is tight. The pages are clean and unmarked. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1961 edition. Published by The Heritage Press, Hardcover in pictorial boards without DJ as issued in slpcase. Condition new inside, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no names, no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, spine slightly sunned. Not a reminder. Slipcase very good, edgewear, slightly sunned, Folio, XIX + 176 pages, illustrated by Michael Ayrton. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders. ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BK9GMK83. Michael Ayrton (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition. Clean text, tight binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ayrton, Michael (illustrator). Boxed.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. second impression edition. 160 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The two volumes constitute a complete translation of Aeschylus. Blue cloth, gold seal on front, gold lettering . Tiny name stamp on flyleaf. Very nice copies xvii, 2i6 pp; xxxiv, 185 pp plus publisher's list. Publisher's insert included about other volumes in this series.…

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. Full leather. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

First edition, early printing of the Golden Treasury Series of four ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Duodecimo, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Translated into English verse by E.D.A Morshead. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Aeschylus (c. 525â"456 BCE) is widely regarded as the father of Western tragedy and the first of the three great Athenian dramatists whose work survived antiquity â" the others being Sophocles and Euripides â" and his innovations in theatrical form were so fundamental that Aristotle credited him with transforming drama itself by introducing the second actor, thereby enabling genuine dialogue and conflict rather than the exchange between a single actor and the chorus that had characterized the form before him. Of the estimated seventy to ninety plays Aeschylus composed across his long career, only seven survive in complete form, among them four works of particular consequence: The Suppliant Maidens, widely considered the earliest surviving Greek tragedy, presents the fifty daughters of Danaus fleeing forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins and seeking asylum in Argos, raising enduring questions about the rights of suppliants, the obligations of rulers, and the competing claims of divine and human law. The Persians (472 BCE), the only surviving Greek tragedy drawn from contemporary history rather than myth, dramatizes the aftermath of the Greek victory at Salamis as witnessed from the Persian court â" a work of extraordinary imaginative sympathy that transforms military triumph into meditation on the catastrophic consequences of hubris and imperial overreach. The Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE) completes an earlier trilogy on the House of Oedipus, tracing the fratricidal war between Eteocles and Polynices with a stark dramatic power that anticipates Sophocles' later treatments of the same material. Prometheus Bound, presenting the Titan Prometheus chained to his rock as a figure of defiant intellectual heroism, suffering divine punishment for having given humanity fire and the arts of civilization, and engaging Zeus himself in a contest of wills whose terms have echoed through Western literature from Milton to Shelley and beyond.…

Hardcover. Limited Edition #713/1500. Quarto, 177 pages. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good red cloth slip case. Bound in publisher's quarter red leather and brown cloth boards. Brown label with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing at head and tail of spine. Small stain on front free endpaper. Signed by Ayrton and enumerated on limitation page in rear of textblock. Shelved on the Front Table. 1409718. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…