Greek Tragedy : Aeschylus Euripides Sophocles

The fifth century BC saw the fullest flowering of art, literature and philosophy in ancient Athens, and this new selection brings the masterpieces of the great tragedians of that era - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides - together in one volume. Powerful and devastating, these plays depict complex characters locked in brutal conflict both with others and themselves in situations that offer no simple solutions. Through the revenge-murder in Agamemnon, the hideous family secret revealed in Oedipus Rex and a mother's slaughter of her children in Medea, we see the wrenching dilemmas faced by humans in a morally uncertain world. This volume also includes extracts from Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs - a comic satire on tragic playwrights - and a selection from Aristotle's masterful Poetics, which presents a philosophical discussion of Greek tragedy.