Aeschylus Murray Gilbert Translator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Dust jacket has some light age toning and is price clipped on front flap. Book itself is gently used with only minor wear. Tightly bound copy with clean interior having no markings, writing, underlining, or highlighting in margins or text block. Inv. # 13629.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xvi, 64pp, Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. 12mo. Rubbed spine head. Very lightly rubbed and worn corners. Light mottling to top front board; slightly cocked. Dusty top text block edge, all edges just starting to fox. Signature binding. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Gutter slightly stretched at title page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear; soiling to front; chipping to edges, not price clipped. Translated into rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray, The Eumenides is the final play in Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy in which Orestes is pursued by the furious Furies for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, avenging the death of his father, Agamemnon.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Translated into English rhyming verse with an introduction and notes. First edition thus. Previous owner's book-plate front paste-down, else very good or better in green cloth. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. First edition. 2 p.l., 7-89, [1] p. 19 cm. Translated into English Rhyming verse with Introduction and Notes. "Seven Against Thebes" is the third and only surviving play from a tetralogy Aeschylus entered in the Great Dionysia. The tetralogy follows the cursed Theban patriarchy headed by Laius--the focus of the first tragedy--his son Oedipus--the focus of the second tragedy--and Oedipus's sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, featured in "Seven Against Thebes". Eteocles, the reigning King of Thebes, must defend his city against his own brother Polyneices, who, in concert with Adrastus, the King of Argos, plans to invade Thebes and claim the throne. Before battle, the seven invading captains choose lots to determine which of the seven Theban gates to attack. A messenger delivers each announcement to Eteocles, who sends one of his own men to defend the gate. The last announcement names Polyneices as the final invading captain, pitting him against his own brother, Eteocles. The two brothers take up arms against each other and both are killed during the successful defense of the city. Good. No dust jacket. Top edge soiled.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine first edition hardcover, green boards, gold lettering. No writing, slight offsetting to front end paper. Preface by Murray, the play, notes, list and descriptions of other books in this series. 89 pages plus list. M05672.