Aeschylus

— Persians — Seven against Thebes — Suppliant Women — Oresteia [ Agamemnon | Choephori | Eumenides ] — Prometheus Bound — Fragments —

General Resources

English Translations

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Complete Works

  • Loeb (current): A. H. Sommerstein, LCL (2009) [Review of vol. 2 (Oresteia) by Citti (in Italian) in BMCR]
  • Oxford (GTNT): Complete Aeschylus, 2 vols. (2009), collecting translations previously published separately in the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series — vol. 1: The Oresteia (A. Shapiro / P. Burian) [Review by Ireland in CR]; vol. 2: Persians and Other Plays [Prometheus Bound (J. Scully / C. J. Herrington); The Suppliants (P. Burian); Persians (J. Lembke / C. J. Herrington); Seven against Thebes (A. Hecht / H. Bacon)]
  • Oxford World’s Classics: C. Collard (tr.), Aeschylus: Oresteia (Oxford, 2002) [Google Books preview] [Review by Garvie in CR]; Aeschylus:  Persians and other Plays (Oxford, 2008) [Persians; Seven against Thebes; Suppliants; Prometheus Bound] [Google Books preview] [Review by Garvie in IJCT]
  • C. R. Mueller (Hanover, NH, 2002) [WorldCat]
  • Penn: G. Holst-Warhaft, W. Matthews, S. Sandy, D. R. Slavitt, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998-9) [Review of vol. 1 (Oresteia) by Bers in BMCR]
  • Methuen: F. Raphael and K. McLeish (intro by J. M. Walton), 2 vols. (London: Methuen, 1991) [WorldCat]
  • Penguin: P. Vellacott, 2 vols.: The Oresteian Trilogy; Prometheus Bound and Other Plays (Penguin, 1956 and 1961) [Review of Oresteia by Lucas in CR] [Review of Oresteia by Cossett in CJ]
  • Chicago: S. G. Bernadete, D. Grene, and R. Lattimore, 2 vols. (Chicago, 1953-6; 3rd rev. ed. 2013)
  • G. M. Cookson, “The Plays of Aeschylus,” in Great Books of the Western World 5 (Chicago, 1952); repr. (London, 1960) — apparently collecting Cookson’s two separate publications: Four Plays of Aeschylus (1922) [Suppliant Maidens, Persians, Seven against Thebes, Prometheus Bound] [Google Books] [Archive.org]; Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides (London, 1924) [WorldCat]
  • G. Murray (1952) [WorldCat]
  • Loeb (old): H. W. Smyth, LCL, 2 vols. (1922-6) [Loebolus: vol. 1; vol. 2]; repr. with appendix of more recent fragments (1963)
  • A. S. Way, 3 vols. (1906-8) [Archive.org: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3]
  • W. Headlam and C. E. S. Headlam (NY, 1909) [HathiTrust]  — republishing separately published volumes, W. Headlam (1900-1908) [Google Books: vol. 1 [Agamemnon]; vol. 2 [Choephoroe]; vol. 3 [Eumenides]; vol. 4 [Prometheus Bound]; vol. 5 [Suppliants] ]; C. E. S. Headlam, Persians (1909) [Archive.org] and Seven against Thebes (London, 1909) ?]
  • L. Campbell, Aeschylus: The Seven Plays in English Verse (1890 [Archive.org] [HathiTrust]; “new ed., revised” 1906 [HathiTrust]; repr. 1912 [HathiTrust]; repr. 1949 [Archive.org])
  • A. Swanwick, The Dramas of Aeschylus (London, 1873 [HathiTrust]; 1881 [Google Books]; NY, 1890; 4th ed., 1897 [Google Books]; rev. 1899)
  • R. S. Copleston (Edinburgh, 1870; Philadelphia, 1871 [HathiTrust])
  • F. A. Paley (1864 [Google Books]; 2nd ed., 1871 [Google Books])
  • E. H. Plumptre, 2 vols. (1858; repr. 1865, 1901; NY, 1869, 1873, 1882)
  • J. S. Blackie, The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus (London, 1850, 2 vols. [HathiTrust]; repr. London: Dent, 1906 [Google Books]) — On the translation, see S. Wallace, John Stuart Blackie (2006), pp. 146ff. [Google Books]
  • T. A. Buckley, The Tragedies of Aeschylus: Literally Translated… (London: Bohn, 1849) [Google Books]
  • anon., The Seven Tragedies of Aeschylus, Literally Translated into English Prose [C. J. Blomfield?] (Oxford, 1822 [Archive.org]; repr. 1827, 1829 [Google Books], 1840; 3rd ed., 1843 [HathiTrust])
  • R. Potter (1777 [Google Books]; 2nd ed., “corrected, with notes,” 1779, 2 vols. [Google Books: vol. 1; vol. 2]; “a new edition corrected, with notes,” 1819 [Archive.org]; 1833, 2 vols. [HathiTrust]; NY, 1834 [?])

Collections (Oresteia only)

Adaptations of the Oresteia

Collections (non-Oresteia)

  • A. E. Luschnig, Three Other Theban Plays (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2016) [includes Seven Against Thebes] [Review by Brook in BMCR]
  • B. Doerries (tr.), All That You’ve Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies (New York, 2015) [includes Prometheus Bound] [related article at Eidolon]
  • A. Poochigian (tr.), Aeschylus: Persians; Seven against Thebes; and Suppliants (Baltimore, 2011) [Review by Petrides in CR; a copy on academia.edu] [Review by Elliott in Translation and Literature]
  • A. Carson (tr.), An Oresteia (New York, 2010) [includes Agamemnon] [Review by Leithauser in NYTimes] [Review by Wilson in The Nation] | [Review of the staged performance in Variety]
  • C. Collard (tr.), Aeschylus:  Persians and other Plays, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2008) [Persians; Seven against Thebes; Suppliants; Prometheus Bound] [Google Books preview] [Review by Garvie in IJCT] — cf. Oxford World’s Classics above
  • M. Ewans, Aischylos: Suppliants and other Dramas (London, 1996) [Suppliants, Persians, Seven against Thebes, fragments, Prometheus Bound] [WorldCat]
  • M. Townsend, The Oresteia Trilogy and Prometheus Bound (San Francisco, 1966) [WorldCat]
  • R. W. Corrigan (ed., tr.) and G. Thomson (tr.), Aeschylus: The Oresteia Trilogy. Prometheus Bound (New York, 1965) — revised from Thomson’s 1938 translation of the Oresteia [Review article (also on Arnott) by Carne-Ross in Arion]
  • E. Hamilton, Three Greek Plays (1937) [includes Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound (and Trojan Women)] [Google Books preview]
  • G. M. Cookson, Four Plays of Aeschylus (1922) [Suppliant Maidens, Persians, Seven against Thebes, Prometheus Bound] [Google Books] [Archive.org] — cf. above under “complete” collections
  • J. D. Cooper, Suppliants, Persians, and Seven against Thebes (n.d. [1889-91]) [HathiTrust] — on title page, Cooper is described as “author of ‘Prometheus Bound, and other Poems,’ &c., &c.”
  • E. D. A. Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus (1881; rev. 1886; repr. 1904, 1908 [WikiSource]) [Suppliant Maidens, Persians, Seven against Thebes, Prometheus Bound] — [Gutenberg.org, no date]
  • J. B. Rose, Greek Dramas [adapted from R. Potter] (London, 1867-72) [WorldCat] [Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides, Prometheus Vinctus, Supplices] [Google Books: vol. 1 (Prometheus, Agamemnon, Oedipus [Rex], Ajax, Alcestis, Hecuba); vol. 2 (Iphigenia in Aulis, Choephoroi, Eumenides, Iphigenia in Tauris; vol. 3 (Supplicants [Aeschylus], Andromache, Medeia, Antigone, Philoctetes, Helena]
  • P. Brumoy, The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy, tr. C. Lennox, 3 vols. (London, 1759) [details on Brumoy page] [Google Books: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3]

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