{"product_id":"2026100012654-secondhand-greek-tragedies-volume-2","title":"Greek Tragedies: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of myth, morality, and human suffering stands the enduring tradition of Greek tragedy — and this second volume of the acclaimed anthology series brings together four of its most celebrated works: Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, Sophocles's Electra, and Euripides's Iphigenia in Tauris and The Trojan Women. Each play confronts the reader with the full weight of fate, divine will, and the agonising choices faced by mortals caught between loyalty, grief, and vengeance. From Orestes's blood-soaked obligation to avenge his father's murder to the desolate aftermath of Troy's fall, these works chart the entire spectrum of human sorrow and resolve with devastating clarity.\n\nEdited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore — two of the most distinguished classical scholars of the twentieth century — this anthology presents translations that are at once rigorously faithful to the Greek originals and alive with genuine poetic power. Their editorial vision, which prizes both scholarly integrity and theatrical immediacy, has made this series an enduring cornerstone of classical studies and a gateway for generations of readers encountering these timeless dramas for the first time. Whether read as literature, philosophy, or performance, these plays ask questions about justice and suffering that no civilisation has ever fully answered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948326588635,"sku":"2026100012654-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a9310eb0-0bea-44bb-a3ca-64b36bdf1c89.png?v=1793104758","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012654-secondhand-greek-tragedies-volume-2","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}