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Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

4 reviews
Euripides

University Of Chicago Press, 2002

Very fine version
The three plays presented in "Euripides V" are all important works: Electra, The Phoenician Women, and The Bacchae. The editors are David Grene (who translated and provided the Introduction to "The History" by Herodotus) and Richmond Lattimore. Both are well reputed scholars of the classics. Before each play, they provide useful context and critical evaluations of the work. Emily Townsend ...

Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

1 review
Euripides

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

Nicely organized
The third in this series of translation of Greek drama has the same basic flaws as the others: conservative translation. But also like the others it is very readable and affordable. I also liked the fact that these plays were organized so that the stories are shown in their interconnected fashion. An audience member in ancient Greece would have this full background and thus it is a wonderful ...

Euripides: Bacchae (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)

11 reviews
Euripides

Cambridge University Press, 2000

One of the best translations out there
I am a classical history major with a focus on poetry and drama. I have actually read Bacchae in Attic Greek and I have to say that I find this translation to be one of the most fluid and natural of any that I have ever read. I would highky recommend this to anyone looking for a well-written, very gory introduction to Greek theatre. This edition is also great for using as a script, wheras many ...

Euripides I: Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

4 reviews
Euripides

University Of Chicago Press, 1955

Euripides plays about Hercules, Jason, and Theseus
Volume I of "The Complete Greek Tragedies" of Euripides offers the playwrights rather unique view on some of the greatest heroes of Greek Mythology: Hercules, Jason, and Theseus. "Alcestis? (translated by Richard Lattimore) is the oldest surviving play of Euripides and the closest thing we have to an extant example of a satyr play. Consequently, this play has more of a burlesque tone, best ...

Medea

28 reviews
Euripides

Free Press, 2008

It's all Greek to me.
Wonderful play, great translation. Collier really makes ancient Greek understandable and enjoyable. Great edition.

Euripides Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus
Euripides

Hackett Publishing Company, 2007

This volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes.

Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

8 reviews
Euripides

Penguin Classics, 2003

Great Collection
I think this is one of the better compilations I've seen. I've really been impressed with all of the Oxford World's Classics series. The information given in the Introduction as well as the maps and reference materials mentioned are very helpful. In addition I like having the notes listed at the end of the compilation rather then interspersed, I find it less distracting that way. A must have ...

Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, The Bachae
Euripides

W. W. Norton, 1974

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books Classics)

3 reviews
Euripides

NYRB Classics, 2008

simple, clear, beautiful
I've owned copies of Euripides all my life and never got around to reading them, but when Grief Lessons came across my desk last week, I was compelled to read straight through it. The title alone speaks of Carson's special talent for reaching the heart of the matter. Grief Lessons. The layout of her character's dialogue, too, flows back and forth along the margins of the page so that your eye ...

Euripides IV: Rhesus, The Suppliant Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

1 review
Euripides

University Of Chicago Press, 1968

another rare play
This fourth book in the Euripides series gives the reader another fairly rare play: Rhesus. Readable translation that is easily affordable with good general introductions. A bit too conservative in translation at points.

Five Great Greek Tragedies (Thrift Edition)

1 review
Sophocles, Euripides, ...

Dover Publications, 2004

fast and speedy
this year i decided to order my books from on line and save, oh i don't know, about 200.00 dollars, i needed this specific book, saw that it was readily available and affordable...so tah-dah..i ordered it and i received it just in time for school...

Medea
Euripides

Filiquarian, 2007

Medea, from Greek mythology, was he daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, Niece of Circe and the wife of Jason. Media is known in most Greek stories as an enchantress who would become the subject of of this tragedy by Euripides. The Euripides version differentiates itself from other tellings because it doesn't depict Medea is a crazy person who killed her children, but as a distressed and furious wife who is upset at Jason for leaving her to ...

Ten Plays by Euripides

8 reviews
Euripides

Bantam Classics, 1984

Ten plays by Euripides, the first playwright of democracy
Euripides was the youngest and the least successful of the great triad of Greek tragic poets. Criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, his plays were ridiculed by Aristophanes in "The Frogs." His plays exhibited his iconoclastic, rationalizing attitude toward the ancient myths that were the subject matter for Greek drama. For ...

Four Plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (Focus Classical Library)

1 review
Euripides

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2002

student review
I found all 4 plays in this book easy to read & easy to get into...this book was awesome & has made me a fan of Euripides.

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 3: Euripides (Complete Greek Tragedies)

1 review
Euripides

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

Antigone!
This is a reply to another post. Do you really think that Euripedes is arguing that Antigone is right? Sure, her brother was dishonored and should have been buried, but doesn't she have a martyr complex? I think so because, she does everything so publicly then brags about it. She seems to want to speak out against authority more than do justice... This play does an excellent job proving ...

Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus (Oxford World's ...

5 reviews
Euripides

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Essential but...
Vellcott's translations of Euripides are the greatest voice anyone has given Euripides... This last volume contains high voltage energy! The Bacchae is his masterpiece and the main attraction! The only thing about this edition is that Vellacott in the 1970's revised his original putting much of the text into verse, and taking out the original prose. I find the 1954 original much much ...

Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoriative Modern Translations

1 review
Aeschylus, Euripides, ...

Applause Books, 2000

Classical are these classics.
Robert Corrigan has put together an amazing collection of classical plays. The translations are modern without losing the savvy and content of their original. This edition is sparse in stage directions which is the way it should remain. It was a real predilection for the modern translations to bear psychological truths and encript Stanislavskian drives to explain every character motivation. ...

Ten Plays (Signet Classics)

8 reviews
Euripides

Signet Classics, 1998

Ten plays by Euripides, the first playwright of democracy
Euripides was the youngest and the least successful of the great triad of Greek tragic poets. Criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, his plays were ridiculed by Aristophanes in "The Frogs." His plays exhibited his iconoclastic, rationalizing attitude toward the ancient myths that were the subject matter for Greek drama. For ...

Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

1 review
Euripides

University Of Chicago Press, 2002

rare translation
This edition of the Euripides plays contains the rarely read "Cyclops", not a great play but important nevertheless to a complete understanding of Euripides or Greek drama in my opinion. Just as the other translations in this series is rather conservative, so too is this edition. A good, reasonably priced version for undergraduate classes.

Euripides, VII, Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager (Loeb Classical Library No. 504)
Euripides

Loeb Classical Library, 2008

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 bce survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be ...

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