Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, and Ion written by legendary tragedian Euripides is widely considered to be among the best of his approximately ninety five plays. These great classics will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, and Ion is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, the combination of these gems by Euripides is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, and Ion would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.
In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have...
This is the final in a series of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays.
Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage.
Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination.
In Andromache, Andromache's “barbarian” values were probably no more distant from those of the Athenians in the audience than Hermione's Spartan ones. In Hecuba, Trojans are contrasted not only with Greeks but with the Thracian king ...
This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama ...
In this new edition of HECUBA, a poet and a classical scholar have collaborated to produce a striking version of a play central to Euripides' dramatic vision.
"The story of Helen of Troy has its origins in ancient Greek epic and didactic poetry, more than 2500 years ago, but it remains one of the world's most galvanizing myths about the destructive power of beauty.