The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Some foxing to dust-jacket. Price clipped from front flap of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1951 second printing of a translation first published in 1936. 71, [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 218 x 138mm. "We owe a debt to Mr. MacNeice for doing for us to-day what Chapman and North did for the sixteenth century and Pope for the eighteenth." - Granta, quoted on front flap of dust-jacket. Text in English, translated from Greek. "WATCHMAN. - The gods it is I ask to release me from this watch / A year's length now, spending my nights like a dog, / Watching on my elbow on the roof of the sons of Atreus [. . .]" - the opening lines.

Product Info

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Year: (1951)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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