ADLER, Mortimer J. (Editor) / SADIE, Stanley (Chief-Editor):

GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD - A Collection of the Greatest Writings in Western History, 60 Volumes: 1/2) 'The Syntopicon - Index to the Great Ideas''; - 3) HOMER: 'The Iliad / The Odyssey'; - 4) AESCHYLUS: 'The Suppliant Maidens; 'The Persians', 'Seven Against Thebes', 'Prometheus Bound', 'Agamemnon', 'The Libation Bearers', 'The Eumenides'; SOPHOCLES: 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus', 'Antigone', 'Ajax', 'Electra', 'The Women of Trachis', 'Philoctetes'; EURIPIDES: 'Rhesus', 'The Medea', 'Hippolytus', 'Alcestis', 'The Heracleidae', 'The Suppliant Women', 'The Trojan Women', 'Ion', 'Helen', 'Andromache', 'Electra', 'The Bacchae', 'Hecuba', 'Heracles', 'The Phoenician Women', 'Orestes', 'Iphigenia in Tauris', 'Iphigenia in Aulis'

      Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica, ca. 1990. - Ca. 35.000 pages; Black artificial leather 'heirloom'-bindings with gilt titles on colour-spine-labels; largo-8vo.(ca. 23 x 17 x 200 cm). 2nd enlarged edition, complete in 60 volumes. 'Great Books of the Western World' is one of the most acclaimed publishing feasts of our time. Authoritative, accurate, and complete, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling over 500 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science into a color-coded set as handsome as it is affordable. From the ancient classics to the newest masterpieces of the 20th century, 'Great Books' traces the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization.( publisher's advertisement). --- Almost all books still in publisher's transparent plastic foil, no signs of use or age. - Special shipment rate has to be charged. isbn 0852295316. [Attributes: Hard Cover]