The Persians

Translations into English

  • Robert Potter, 1777 – verse: full text
  • Anna Swanwick, 1886 – verse: full text
  • E. D. A. Morshead, 1908 – verse
  • Walter George Headlam and C. E. S. Headlam, 1909 – prose
  • Herbert Weir Smyth, 1922 – prose: full text
  • G. M. Cookson, 1922 – verse
  • Gilbert Murray, 1939 – verse
  • Seth G. Benardete, 1956 – verse
  • Philip Vellacott, 1961 – verse
  • Ted Hughes, 1971 – incorporated into Orghast
  • Janet Lembke and C.J. Herington, 1981
  • Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish, 1991
  • Edith Hall, 1996
  • Ellen McLaughlin, 2004 – verse
  • George Theodoridis, 2009 – prose: full text
  • Aaron Poochigian, 2010, verse[32]
  • Ian C. Johnston, 2012, verse: full text
  • James Romm, 2016 – verse

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