First English edition with commentary on one of Euripides finest texts for 125 years"
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 ...
Presents fresh translations of ten immortal plays in verse by the ancient Greek dramatist, including "Electra," "Medea," and "The Trojan Women," accompanied by scene headings, stage directions, introductions, and a glossary of people, gods, ...
These three tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.
Student edition of Euripedes' classic in which an abandoned, mistreated wife exacts revenge by killing her children.
In Euripides' Hippolytos, however—informed by the playwright's moral and religious fascination—we find a Phaidra resisting the goddess of love with all her strength, though in the end unsuccessfully.
As the first book devoted to Euripidean justice, Seeing with Free Eyes adds to the growing interest in how citizens in democracies use storytelling genres to think about important political questions, such as "What is justice?
Provides translations of five Greek dramas by Euripides.
A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus.
This volume collects Hippolytos, a dramatic interpretation of the tragedy of Phaidra; Suppliant Women, a powerful examination of the competing poles of the human psyche; Ion a complex enactment of the changing relations between the human ...
This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.