Aeschylus e d a morshead (13 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Dover Thrift Edition. 151 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Minimal, light or very mild discoloration/browning/tanning/foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Solidly bound copy showing light signs of wear. Light wear along edges and corners. Light foxing around page ends. Small stain on center page end at last 1/4 of book. Teresa Delgado (Cover Design) (illustrator).…

Zustand: Fair. 1904. Reprinted. 185 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. In the Golden Treasury series. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages have deckled edges. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. A few small edge tears to a few pages. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Slight water staining to rear. Mild surface scratching. Boards are slightly bowed. …

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Zustand: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. second impression edition. 160 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The two volumes constitute a complete translation of Aeschylus. Blue cloth, gold seal on front, gold lettering . Tiny name stamp on flyleaf. Very nice copies xvii, 2i6 pp; xxxiv, 185 pp plus publisher's list. Publisher's insert included about other volumes in this series.…

Zustand: Very Good Plus. Reprint. Blue cloth binding. Very slight flecking to rear board, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 4.25 x 6.25 inches (10.5 x 16 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xix, 216, 4.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus. Published by Easton Press, 1979. Quarto. Hardcover. Green leather with gilt page ends. Book is like new; clean and crisp. No writing, no bookplates. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Zustand: good+ to near fine. Limited edition. 1/1500. Folio. xix, 177pp, [1]. Maroon buckram slip case, red label with gilt lettering on spine. Red leather over brown cloth boards, gilt letter "O" on front cover. Tan cloth label with gilt lettering mounted on spine. Frontispiece. This limited edition, #87 of 1500 copies hand numbered and signed by illustrator Michael Ayrton at colophon, contains finely printed illustrations in b/w and color reproduced in high quality photogravure throughout. The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: ????????) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and pacification of the Erinyes. The trilogyconsisting of Agamemnon (?????????), The Libation Bearers (????ó?o?), and The Eumenides (?????????)also shows how the Greek gods interacted with the characters and influenced their decisions pertaining to events and disputes. The only extant example of an ancient Greek theatre trilogy, the Oresteia won first prize at the Dionysia festival in 458 BC. The principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast between revenge and justice, as well as the transition from personal vendetta to organized litigation. Oresteia originally included a satyr play, Proteus (???????), following the tragic trilogy, but all except a single line of Proteus has been lost. Slipcase with chip lower right front cover, scratches, staining and water stains to slipcase. Binding with light rubbing along hinge of spine and staining to cloth label. Slip case in good, binding in very good-, interior in near fine condition overall.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Boards are age-toned with wear to all corners on front and rear, corners and edges bumped, red cloth spine sunned, silver titling bright; binding is tight; pages are slightly age-toned at outer edges but unmarked aside from Michael Ayrton's signature and dedication on front endpaper dated 1964 and signature on title page. ; 9.75 x 1 x 13 inches; 176 pages; Signed by Illustrator. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Limited Edition #713/1500. Quarto, 177 pages. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good red cloth slip case. Bound in publisher's quarter red leather and brown cloth boards. Brown label with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing at head and tail of spine. Small stain on front free endpaper. Signed by Ayrton and enumerated on limitation page in rear of textblock. Shelved on the Front Table. 1409718. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing.; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

First edition, early printing of the Golden Treasury Series of four ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Duodecimo, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Translated into English verse by E.D.A Morshead. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Aeschylus (c. 525â"456 BCE) is widely regarded as the father of Western tragedy and the first of the three great Athenian dramatists whose work survived antiquity â" the others being Sophocles and Euripides â" and his innovations in theatrical form were so fundamental that Aristotle credited him with transforming drama itself by introducing the second actor, thereby enabling genuine dialogue and conflict rather than the exchange between a single actor and the chorus that had characterized the form before him. Of the estimated seventy to ninety plays Aeschylus composed across his long career, only seven survive in complete form, among them four works of particular consequence: The Suppliant Maidens, widely considered the earliest surviving Greek tragedy, presents the fifty daughters of Danaus fleeing forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins and seeking asylum in Argos, raising enduring questions about the rights of suppliants, the obligations of rulers, and the competing claims of divine and human law. The Persians (472 BCE), the only surviving Greek tragedy drawn from contemporary history rather than myth, dramatizes the aftermath of the Greek victory at Salamis as witnessed from the Persian court â" a work of extraordinary imaginative sympathy that transforms military triumph into meditation on the catastrophic consequences of hubris and imperial overreach. The Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE) completes an earlier trilogy on the House of Oedipus, tracing the fratricidal war between Eteocles and Polynices with a stark dramatic power that anticipates Sophocles' later treatments of the same material. Prometheus Bound, presenting the Titan Prometheus chained to his rock as a figure of defiant intellectual heroism, suffering divine punishment for having given humanity fire and the arts of civilization, and engaging Zeus himself in a contest of wills whose terms have echoed through Western literature from Milton to Shelley and beyond.…