{
  "full": "\n**PAUL LANDIS, ed. FOUR FAMOUS GREEK PLAYS. 1929–1950. (ML 158)**  \n\n#### 178a. First printing (1929)  \n\n[within double rules] FOUR FAMOUS | GREEK PLAYS | [rule] | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION | BY | PROF. PAUL LANDIS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xviii, [1–2] 3–285 [286]. [1–9]16 [10]8  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1929, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–xviii INTRODUCTION signed p. xviii: Paul Landis | Urbana, Illinois, | *January,* 1929.; [1] part title: AGAMEMNON | BY | AESCHYLUS; [2] PERSONS OF THE DRAMA; 3–4 ARGUMENT; 5–285 text; [286] blank.  \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 178a except: [286–294]. [1–9]16 [10]12. Contents as 178a except: [ii] pub. note A6; [iv] *First* statement omitted; [287–292] ML list; [293–294] blank. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\n*Contents:* Agamemnon, by Aeschylus; translated by Lewis Campbell – Oedipus the King, by Sophocles; translated by F. Storr – Medea, by Euripides; translated by A. S. Way – The Frogs, by Aristophanes; translated by John Hookham Frere.  \n\n*Jacket:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n> Front flap: 
 The glory that was Greece is nowhere so luminously reflected as in the mirror of her drama. Through the masks of tragedy and comedy, nobility and villainy, and all the duality of the human spirit, the life of man glows to passion and grows dim. Pity and terror in Æschylus, serene detachment in Sophocles, burning fervor for justice in Euripides and the robust intellectual comedy of Aristophanes—these qualities remain the message and the meaning of Greek drama. It is a heritage from antiquity that the modern spirit needs. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Publication announced for July 1929. *WR* 14 September 1929. First printing: Not ascertained. Superseded spring 1951 by *Seven Famous Greek Plays*, ed. Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O’Neill, Jr. (439).  \n\nCerf wrote shortly after publication, “The Greek Plays has done nobly, and has thoroughly justified its inclusion in the series. I am still regretting the fact, however, that we did not get permission to use the Gilbert Murray translations” (Cerf to Landis, 8 May 1930). Twenty-two years later the ML used Murray’s translation of *The Frogs* in *Seven Famous Greek Plays* (439).  \n\n*Four Famous Greek Plays* ranked low in the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943.  \n\n#### 178b. Title page reset (c. 1941)  \n\nFOUR | FAMOUS GREEK | PLAYS | *Edited, with an introduction by* | *Professor* PAUL LANDIS | [torchbearer D1 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 178a variant. Contents as 178a variant except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [293–294] ML Giants list. (*Spring 1944*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial in dark red (16) and bluish gray (191) on cream paper with lettering in dark red and in reverse on bluish gray panel at upper left; series in dark red below panel against cream background. \n\n> Front flap as 178a. (*Spring 1944*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \n*Seven Famous Greek Plays*, ed. Oates and O’Neill (1951–1970) 439  \nAeschylus, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 1 (1960– ) 526  \nAeschylus, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 2 (1962–1976) 543  \nSophocles, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 3 (1960–1973) 527  \nSophocles, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 4 (1961–1973) 533  \nEuripides, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 5 (1961–1973) 531  \nEuripides, *Complete Greek Tragedies,* vol. 6 (1963–1973) 548  \nEuripides, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 7 (1963–1973) 552  \n\n",
  "id": "178",
  "year": "1929",
  "label": "PAUL LANDIS, ed. FOUR FAMOUS GREEK PLAYS. 1929–1950. (ML 158)",
  "author": "PAUL LANDIS, ed",
  "title": "FOUR FAMOUS GREEK PLAYS.",
  "date": "1929–1950.",
  "something": "ML 158",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "178a",
      "title": "First printing (1929)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] FOUR FAMOUS | GREEK PLAYS | [rule] | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION | BY | PROF. PAUL LANDIS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xviii, [1–2] 3–285 [286]. [1–9]16 [10]8  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1929, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–xviii INTRODUCTION signed p. xviii: Paul Landis | Urbana, Illinois, | *January,* 1929.; [1] part title: AGAMEMNON | BY | AESCHYLUS; [2] PERSONS OF THE DRAMA; 3–4 ARGUMENT; 5–285 text; [286] blank.  \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 178a except: [286–294]. [1–9]16 [10]12. Contents as 178a except: [ii] pub. note A6; [iv] *First* statement omitted; [287–292] ML list; [293–294] blank. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\n*Contents:* Agamemnon, by Aeschylus; translated by Lewis Campbell – Oedipus the King, by Sophocles; translated by F. Storr – Medea, by Euripides; translated by A. S. Way – The Frogs, by Aristophanes; translated by John Hookham Frere.  \n\n*Jacket:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n> Front flap: 
 The glory that was Greece is nowhere so luminously reflected as in the mirror of her drama. Through the masks of tragedy and comedy, nobility and villainy, and all the duality of the human spirit, the life of man glows to passion and grows dim. Pity and terror in Æschylus, serene detachment in Sophocles, burning fervor for justice in Euripides and the robust intellectual comedy of Aristophanes—these qualities remain the message and the meaning of Greek drama. It is a heritage from antiquity that the modern spirit needs. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Publication announced for July 1929. *WR* 14 September 1929. First printing: Not ascertained. Superseded spring 1951 by *Seven Famous Greek Plays*, ed. Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O’Neill, Jr. (439).  \n\nCerf wrote shortly after publication, “The Greek Plays has done nobly, and has thoroughly justified its inclusion in the series. I am still regretting the fact, however, that we did not get permission to use the Gilbert Murray translations” (Cerf to Landis, 8 May 1930). Twenty-two years later the ML used Murray’s translation of *The Frogs* in *Seven Famous Greek Plays* (439).  \n\n*Four Famous Greek Plays* ranked low in the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943.  \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "178b",
      "title": "Title page reset (c. 1941)  ",
      "full": "\n\nFOUR | FAMOUS GREEK | PLAYS | *Edited, with an introduction by* | *Professor* PAUL LANDIS | [torchbearer D1 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 178a variant. Contents as 178a variant except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [293–294] ML Giants list. (*Spring 1944*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial in dark red (16) and bluish gray (191) on cream paper with lettering in dark red and in reverse on bluish gray panel at upper left; series in dark red below panel against cream background. \n\n> Front flap as 178a. (*Spring 1944*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \n*Seven Famous Greek Plays*, ed. Oates and O’Neill (1951–1970) 439  \nAeschylus, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 1 (1960– ) 526  \nAeschylus, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 2 (1962–1976) 543  \nSophocles, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 3 (1960–1973) 527  \nSophocles, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 4 (1961–1973) 533  \nEuripides, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 5 (1961–1973) 531  \nEuripides, *Complete Greek Tragedies,* vol. 6 (1963–1973) 548  \nEuripides, *Complete Greek Tragedies*, vol. 7 (1963–1973) 552  \n\n"
    }
  ],
  "type": "book"
}