GREEK LYRIC POETRY AND TRAGEDY: TRANSLATION AND ORIGINAL COMPOSITION
by Erez Natanblut
ISBN 978-0973902600
This book is a unique and exciting collection of Greek Lyric Poetry and Tragedy. Poetic gems by the great ancient Greek lyricists from the seventh to fifth centuries B.C. - Sappho, Archilochus, Simonides, Ibycus, Pindar, Alcman, Mimnermus, Stesichorus, Phyrnichus, Xenophanes - are presented in new verse translations. Here you will also find two Greek Tragedies- Laodamia and Stheneboea - reconstructed from two lost plays by Euripides, the Athenian dramatist of the fifth century B.C.
Laodamia deals with a woman's Orphic quest to fetch her dead husband from the underworld. Stheneboea is based on the myth of Bellerophon, and is a tale about adultery, murder and deceit.
Meager, tantalizing fragments of Euripides' lost plays and ancient plot summaries provided the inspirations for these modern dramatizations of ancient Greek myths.