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Penguin Books. Good. 1970. Softcover. 0451624955 . Staple holes to bottom corner of book for first few pages. Hole to top corner of some pages. ; Mentor Series; 128 pages; Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favors with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes Lysistrata a comedy without peer in the history of theater. .

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Harper & Row. Good+. 1966. Softcover. Bottom of spine has tear (3 cm) and chipping to spine. Writing in ink to table of contents (page numbers). Text is clean. ; Harper Torchbooks; 157 pages; Is Sophocles the poet "more important" than Sophocles the moralist, Sophocles the student of character, or Sophocles the storyteller? In this work, classicist Richmond Lattimore examines the complex and varied ways in which Greek poetry contributes to Greek drama. While acknowledging the difficulty of separating poetry - especially in translation - from other aspects of language, Lattimore offers insight into plays by Aeschylus ("The Suppliant Maidens", "The Persians", "The Seven against Thebes", "Prometheus Bound") , Sophocles ("Ajax", "Oedipus Tyrannus") and Euripedes ("Medea", "Helen", "The Bacchae"). .

Harper & Row. Very Good-. 1967. Softcover. 0060904798 . Minor shelfwear. Small tear to spine at base. Creasing to spine. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; 384 pages; The standard translation into modern English of Homer's Odyssey. "The best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet." .

Indiana University Press. Good. 1963. Softcover. 0253200423 . Spine sunned and creased. Chipping to base of spine. Shelfwear and rubbing to wraps. Former owner's name to inner cover has been deleted with black marker. ; 240 pages .

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. 0195070089 . Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Minor pencilling to a few pages. ; The Greek Tragedy in New Translations; 144 pages .

Walter De Gruyter & Co.. Very Good+. 1961. Softcover. Pages tanned. Minor shelfwear. ; Sammlung Göschen Band 70; Vol. 1; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 144 pages .

Harper & Row. Fair. 1967. Softcover. 0060904798 . Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Some pen underlining and notes. Lower corner torn. Chipping and tears along spine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; 384 pages; The standard translation into modern English of Homer's Odyssey. "The best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet." .

The Liberal Arts Press, Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1957. Paperback. Minor discoloration to spine. Soiling to front wrap (coffee stains). Old price sticker to front wrap. Else VG. ; The complete translation, from the Greek of A. O. Prickard's Oxford text, features an introduction by Grube, establishing the historical and critical context of the work, and a biographical index. ; The Library of Liberal Arts; 66 pages .

Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1951. Twelfth Printing. Softcover. 0672601923 . Minor shelfwear and scuffing. Spine is slightly browned. 1 corner slightly creased. Small stain to front wrap. ; The Library of Liberal Arts; 74 pages .

Routledge. Good. 1996. Paperback. 0415907446 . Light pencil marginalia. Dampstaining through upper edge of part of book and front wrap. Spine sunned. ; These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE) , the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to household and city, religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, of course, to men. This freshly revised edition presents, for the first time in a single volume, all three plays in faithful modern translations that preserve intact Aristophanes’ blunt and often obscene language, sparkling satire, political provocation, and beguiling fantasy. Alongside the translations are ample introductions and notes covering the politically engaged genre… Read More

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1925. Hardcover. Ink notes and underlining to 1 pages. Pencil notes and underlining to a few pages. Former owner's name to inner cover in ink. Corner are a bit edgeworn. Tear and fraying to spine ends. ; Selections in Greek and Latin; 213 pages .

Flammarion. Fine with no dust jacket. 1999. Mass Market Paperback. 2080708198 . French translation with introduction. ; French Edition; 168 pages .

Penguin Books. Good. 1979. Softcover. 0140205705 . Pages browned. Some rubbing to wraps. ; A Pelican Book; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages .

University of Chicago Press. Very Good. 1984. Second Revised Edition. Softcover. 0226469441 . Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). Pencilling to about 7 pages or so. ; English translations of some lyric poets including Anacreon, alcaeus, Simonides, Sappho and others. ; Phoenix Books; 82 pages .

The Liberal Arts Press, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Paperback. Minor discoloration to spine. Old price sticker stain to front wrap. Else minor shelfwear. ; The complete translation, from the Greek of A. O. Prickard's Oxford text, features an introduction by Grube, establishing the historical and critical context of the work, and a biographical index. ; The Library of Liberal Arts; 66 pages .

The Liberal Arts Press, Inc.. Good. 1956. Softcover. Some creasing and spotting to wraps. Some underlining and pen notes. ; The Library of Liberal Arts; 70 pages .

Yale University Press. Good+. 1988. Softcover. 0300042957 . Light wear to corners of wraps. Tear near head of spine (1.5 cm). Else VG. ; Hermes Books; 180 pages .

Yale University Press. Very Good. 1988. Softcover. 0300042957 . Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Creasing to spine with small tear near base of spine. ; Hermes Books; 180 pages .

Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0195017366 . Book is fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; The Greek Tragedy in New Translations; 102 pages .