Greek TragedyChronological Table
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
Preface to Agamemnon
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Preface to Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Preface to Medea
Medea by Euripides
Preface to Frogs
Extracts from Frogs by Aristophanes
Preface to Poetics
Extracts from Poetics by Aristotle
Notes
Genealogical Tables
Map of Ancient Greece
AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A
statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a
slave.
Simon Goldhill (introducer) is Professor of Greek at Cambridge
University and a Fellow of King's College where he is Director of
Studies in Classics. He has published widely on many aspects of
Greek literature, especially tragedy. He is in great demand as a
lecturer all over the world, and is a frequent broadcaster on radio
and television on classical matters.
Shomit Dutta (editor) was educated at University College Oxford,
and King's College London, and has taught classics at Radley
College and Harrow School, and Oxford. He is also a freelance arts
reviewer, and has published a translation of Sophocles' Ajax
(Cambridge).
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