Brief discussion on the plot and text of the earliest existing work by Aeschylus supplements the Greek drama about Danaos and his fifty virgin daughters

The Suppliants (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Literature & Fiction

Lembke, Janet

ÆSchylus

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

The Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is drawn directly from the playwright's own experiences at the battle of Salamis, making it the only account of the Persian Wars composed by an eyewitness. And as pure tragedy, it is a masterpiece. Aeschylus tells the story of the war from the Persian point of view, and his pride in the great victory of Greeks is tempered with a real compassion for Xerxes and his vanquished nation. Lembke and Harrington have rendered this stunning work in a modern translation that loses none of the original's dramatic juxtaposition of serenity and violence, hope and despair.

Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Herington, C. J.

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Hecuba (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

History

Reckford, Kenneth J.

Eurípides

Ancient Civilizations

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. If the line from a lost play, "There is no greater god than necessity," were all that survived of Euripides, we would have his signature. No other artist or thinker has ever dramatized with such relentless concentration the pervasiveness of necessity's power--the terrible force by which it shapes and destroys human character--and in no other play is this theme made more manifest than in Hecuba. In this new edition of Hecuba, a poet and a classical scholar have collaborated to produce a striking version of a play central to Euripides' dramatic vision. The translators have focused their attention on tonal texture, ranging from grief-stricken monodies and duets to lyrical choral verse, as well as on the problems created by political and forensic rhetoric. The result is a subtle and highly evocative translation of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Poyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character.

The Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is drawn directly from the playwright's own experiences at the battle of Salamis, making it the only account of the Persian Wars composed by an eyewitness. And as pure tragedy, it is a masterpiece. Aeschylus tells the story of the war from the Persian point of view, and his pride in the great victory of Greeks is tempered with a real compassion for Xerxes and his vanquished nation. Lembke and Harrington have rendered this stunning work in a modern translation that loses none of the original's dramatic juxtaposition of serenity and violence, hope and despair.

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. This vital translation of Euripides' Electra recreates the prize-winning excitement of the original play. Electra, obsessed by dreams of avenging her father's murder, impatiently awaits the return of her exiled brother Orestes. When he arrives, the play mounts toward its first climax, a tender recognition scene. From that moment on, Electra uses Orestes as her instrument of vengeance. They kill their mother's husband, then their mother herself--and only afterward see the evil inherent in these seemingly just acts. But in his usual fashion, Euripides has imbued myth with the reality of human experience, counterposing suspense and horror with comic realism and down-to-earth comments on life.

Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

This attractive volume presents an original verse translation of Virgil's `love song to almost everything that grows or grazes on the land'. Although written in the 30s BC, Janet Lembke argues that the Georgics remains a poem for our times, with its passionate advocation for caring for the land and not abusing its resources. The brief introduction discusses Virgil's career, the reasons for writing a poem about farming, his Greek influences and his character. The translation itself is faithful, preserving the structure of the original, yet it is also modern and very accessible. It is followed by detailed notes to the translation and a glossary.

Virgil's Georgics (The Yale New Classics Series)

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Bronze and Iron: Old Latin Poetry from Its Beginnings to 100 B.C. [Nov 01, 1973] Lembke, Janet

Bronze and iron;: Old Latin poetry from its beginnings to 100 B.C

Poetry

University of California Press

The author of the acclaimed Dangerous Birds followed that success with a new collection of essays on the natural world, these connected by the theme of water: exploring issues as varied as the joy that water brings, the wistful rememberings it engenders, and its sacredness. As with all of Lembke’s essays, the world of classical myth and its characters meld with her native haunts and their people, lending resonance to the seemingly simplest things: a beetle in the garden, a tangle of forgotten roses, an afternoon rainstorm.Now available in paperback for the first time, Skinny Dipping brings us waters as diverse as the mythical River Styx and the Bullpasture, a stream near Lembke’s Virginia home. In the title essay she looks down a long corridor of time to visit Pliny, the natural historian, for a "skinny dip" in A.D. 79; "Up the Creek" examines a lazy day’s canoe trip with a frightened young friend about to leave home; "And This Way the Water Comes Down at the Gorge" is a tale of a burial―with a fine supporting cast of Faulkneresque characters. Skinny Dipping will delight all lovers of Janet Lembke’s other books, and anyone who appreciates the art of the personal essay.

Skinny Dipping: And Other Immersions in Water, Myth, and Being Human (The Virginia Bookshelf Series)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

University of Virginia Press

How best may those of us who have our wits about us care for old, frail people whose minds are lost forever? The Quality of Life springs from Janet Lembke's experiences during her mother's slow decline after suffering two strokes. She examines death by choice--suicide, assisted or otherwise, the bioethics of withdrawal of life support, advance medical directives and living wills, dementia and how to cope with it, hospice, and objective criteria for assessing quality of life. Lembke interviewed many people, including two women who helped their mothers die, several doctors, a priest, a rabbi, and a Muslim bioethicist. The book concludes with a list of resources, among them the Alzheimer's Association and the National Institute on Aging.

The Quality of Life: Living Well, Dying Well

Health, Fitness & Dieting

iUniverse

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The Suppliants (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Hecuba (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Hecuba (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Virgil's Georgics (The Yale New Classics Series)

Bronze and iron;: Old Latin poetry from its beginnings to 100 B.C

Skinny Dipping: And Other Immersions in Water, Myth, and Being Human (The Virginia Bookshelf Series)

The Quality of Life: Living Well, Dying Well