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This e-book contains summaries of six of the seven extant tragedies of Aeschylus. Also treated are “The Trojan Women” and “Alcestis” by Euripides, “Philoctetes” and “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles, and three comedies by Aristophanes: “Frogs,” “Clouds,” and “The Birds.”
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