good saturday /lit/ I am about to start the book on the left

>>9471774
wondering-

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Euripides is probably my favorite Greek playwright. The Bacchae, Orestes and Electra are all great plays.

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Its a really old fashioned translation, I am not sure how the plays are but the illiad in that collection was god awful. Its plato was ok.

>>9471774
My parents had the entire set, so I have a fondness for these, having read through many of them when i was a kid.
Sophocles is my favorite of tragedians, compared to whom Euripides can seem a little wordy, and Aeschylus a little wooden. In English, Shelley approximates his writing style best.

>>9473350
nice. I can't imagine having all the volumes. along with those in the pic, I have the Augustine and Herodotus & Thucydides volumes, they are pretty nice. Only the Thucydides one was printed in '52 though

>>9471774
sophocles is the best of the three

>>9471774
>And is this translation ok?

These editions are probably the worst you money can buy anon. Why is this the case? Firstly they contain literal censorship, in Aristophanes for instance the fart jokes are removed and he has everyone regardless of class or region all talk like in the same patrician style destroying the humor that comes of the various word plays and cultural jokes. Thirdly and by far the most important - they do not have footnotes/endnotes- you will be reading this blind to the context and characters involved. For ancient works this is a real killer.

These books can literally make you give up on the greeks