{"id":502,"date":"2010-08-24T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=502"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:45:03","slug":"why-wasnt-i-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Why Wasn&#8217;t I Told?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never seen or heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/series\/sSeries.asp?code=CTGD\">Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama<\/a> series until I picked up <em>Ajax<\/em> and <em>Philoctetes<\/em> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvbookfair.com\/\">Green Valley Book Fair<\/a> on Saturday. They look quite useful for monoglot students of tragedy, and not entirely useless for scholars and teachers. I&#8217;m wondering how I managed to miss a whole series of books whose first title (of ten) came out ten years ago. Does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pullins.com\/txt\/Classics.htm\">Focus<\/a> completely dominate this particular segment of the market for translated tragedies? I should probably mention that the Book Fair only had one copy of each, so no one will waste time looking for them there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never seen or heard of the Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama series until I picked up Ajax and Philoctetes at the Green Valley Book Fair on Saturday. They look quite useful for monoglot students of tragedy, and not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-literature","tag-sophocles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}