Four Plays of Aeschylus (1908) Morshead

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Four Plays of Aeschylus (1908)
by Aeschylus, translated by Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead

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The edition given here is the 1908 "Golden Treasury Series" printing, which includes an Introduction by Morshead that was not included in the 1st edition. The half-title page gives the shorter title Four Plays of Aeschylus, although the title page itself gives the title as The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven against Thebes, The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus.

Morshead's translation of The Suppliant Maidens was first published in the UK in 1883 by Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.

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Golden Treasury Series

FOUR PLAYS OF AESCHYLUS

THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS
THE PERSIANS
THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
THE PROMETHEUS BOUND

OF AESCHYLUS

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY

E. D. A. MORSHEAD, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
FORMERLY ASSISTANT MASTER OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE

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1908

Hera and Prometheus
From a red figure vase № 78 in the British Museum

Emery Walker Ph. So

CONTENTS

		PAGE
Introduction		v
THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS	⁠	1
THE PERSIANS		57
THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES		111
PROMETHEUS BOUND		161

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

THE HOUSE OF ATREUS: being the Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Furies of Æschylus. Translated into English verse by E. D. A. Morshead, M.A. 2s. 6d. net.

⁂ The two volumes constitute a complete translation
of Æschylus.

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