Series: Classical Dramatists

Classic plays reissued in the new Methuen Greek Classics series in a distinctive style. The Persians, based on the destruction of the Persian invaders in 480BC, breaks with the Greek tradition of purely dramatising myths to deal with the recent past and with characters who would have been familiar to its first audience in 472BC. Prometheus Bound stages the stand-off...

The work of these three Athenian playwrights became the touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. Six Greek Tragedies contains Aeschylus' Persians, the earliest surviving Greek tragedy; his Prometheus Bound, presenting an archetype of the human condition. Sophocles' Women of Trachis portrays Heracles' death through his jealous wife's mistake; his Philoctetes presents a moral debate...