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- Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles
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Language
en
Duration
~4 hours (238K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2004-12-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Description
Excerpts from various plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles.
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Aeschylus
-525–-456
Among the earliest great tragedians of ancient Greece, he helped shape drama into a serious art form. His surviving plays, including the Oresteia, still feel grand, tense, and full of questions about justice, power, and the gods.
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Sophocles
-496–-406
One of the giants of classical Athenian drama, this playwright helped shape tragedy as we know it. His surviving plays, including Oedipus the King and Antigone, still feel powerful because they ask hard questions about fate, justice, and human choice.
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