Choëphoroe (Murray 1923)

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The Choëphoroe (Libation-Bearers) of Aeschylus (1923)
by Aeschylus, translated by Gilbert Murray

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The second tragedy in the Oresteia, as translated by Gilbert Murray, who also translated Aeschylus' Agamemnon (1920) and Eumenides (1925).

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THE

CHOËPHOROE

(LIBATION-BEARERS)

OF

AESCHYLUS

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE
BY

GILBERT MURRAY

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD

RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. 1

IMMATURA MORTE PEREMPTAE

A. E. M.

FILIOLAE COMMILITONI EXEMPLO

HOC CARMEN DEDICO

Contents (not listed in original)

First published in 1923

Printed in Great Britain by
UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED
LONDON AND WOKING

THE ATHENIAN DRAMA
FOR ENGLISH READERS

A Series of Verse Translations of the Greek
Dramatic Poets, with Commentaries and
Explanatory Notes.

Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 8s. 6d. each net.
Each Volume Illustrated from ancient
Sculptures and Vase-Painting.

EURIPIDES: Hippolytus and Bacchæ; ARISTOPHANES' 'Frogs.' By Prof. Gilbert Murray. With an Appendix on The Lost Tragedies of Euripides, and an Introduction on The Significance of the Bacchæ in Athenian History, and 12 Illustrations. [Sixth Edition.

ALSO UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE

THE HOMERIC HYMNS. A New Prose Rendering by Andrew Lang, with Essays Critical and Explanatory, and 14 Illustrations. 7s. 6d. net.

THE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES

Translated into English Rhyming Verse, with Explanatory Notes, by Prof. Gilbert Murray.

Hippolytus.	25th	Thousand.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Paper Covers, 2s. each net. Also crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. each net.
Bacchæ.	19th	Thousand.
The Trojan Women.		25th Th.
Electra.	25th	Thousand.
Medea.	19th	Thousand.
Iphigenia in Tauris.		16th Th.
Rhesus.	6th	Thousand.
Alcestis.	8th	Thousand.
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus.
	4th	Thousand.

The Frogs of Aristophanes.
	17th	Thousand.

Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles.
	16th	Thousand.

ANDROMACHE: An Original Play by Prof. Gilbert Murray [Third Impression.

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