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message 1: by Ben (new)

Ben Tailor: (holding up customer's torn pants) Euripides?
Customer: Eumenides!


message 2: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Sep 28, 2012 06:11AM) (new)

Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) [Groan ...] ;)

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message 5: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (last edited May 27, 2019 12:59PM) (new)

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Booklovinglady wrote: "The Penelopiad (#9) by Margaret Atwood isn't drama, it's a novel..."

"And it's modern adaptations," though.

I'd argue that The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (#44) doesn't belong on here; it deals with linguistics and the discovery that Linear B was an exceptionally antique form of Greek.


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: ""And it's modern adaptations," though."

'Modern adaptations' I took to be drama also?


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Ah, perhaps so, then.

That double disqualifies The Riddle of the Labyrinth, then, as that's straight non-fiction.


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Ah, perhaps so, then.

That double disqualifies The Riddle of the Labyrinth, then, as that's straight non-fiction."


Haven't read the book, so can't delete it 🙂


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads I have, so I will.


message 10: by John (new)

John Burns Guys, I really want to delete the entries with multiple plays eg. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides or Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus as it's not at all clear which specific play people are voting for. It seems to undermine the premise of this list as a way for people to figure out which are the best Greek dramas if several of the top entries have a bunch of plays all bound together. Someone say if you think this is a bad idea, otherwise I'm going to delete those entries.


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