Review (PDF) Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae
This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides’ plays: Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. These translations remain close to the original, with extensive introductions, interpretive essays, and footnotes. This series is designed to provide students and general readers with access to the nature of Greek drama, Greek mythology, and the context of Greek culture, as well as highly readable and understandable translations of four of Euripides most important plays. Focus also publishes each play as an individual volume.
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Focus (March 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 158510048X
ISBN-13: 978-1585100484
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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This is a modern translation, not at all slangy. The introduction and essays at the end are useful.Medea and Hyppolytus are popular plays. The Bacchae is totally disturbing and is meant to be. Heracles Mad is not so well known, not so popular, and probaly his best extant play.A good read, with much meat for thought.
Once you have deciphered what the book is saying the stories are really interesting. However, the translation is quite difficult to follow along. I found myself taking 3 times as long to read 20 pages as it did for me to read the Illiad.
Be careful purchasing this book from this publisher. The book was required for a classics course I took, however, when I went to read a play from it, I found the translation to be very dated. The writing is difficult to read and very outdated (using words such as dost and o'er, etc.). Turns out, I had purchased the wrong book, and has mistakenly linked them together. The correct one has a red cover with a circle, this one has a white and blue cover with a picture of rocks. Don't waste your money on nearly unreadable prose, make sure you purchase the right book.
Chastity, infanticide and craziness are the themes of these classic plays by the most modern ancient playwright. Thoroughly enjoyable.
This does not have line numbers or chapters so it is very difficult to keep up with my class. Also, the text is pretty much just a dumbed-down paraphrased version. I'm having to use the free online text version anyway. If you absolutely have to buy the physical book, buy a more reliable, more expensive version; it will be worth the extra 10 bucks.
Good. Used but came in great quality. I bought it for a Mythology class though I didn't need it much. The parts I did read were interesting though. It mostly provided famous stories in Greek mythology.
I had to buy this book for a class and my teacher was very particular about the edition and publisher that we got. This is the exact copy of the one he requested so it is nice to know that allows you to be that specific.
Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Euripides I: Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 3) Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus (Oxford World's Classics) Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus (The Complete Greek Tragedies) The Bacchae of Euripides Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 5) Greek Tragedies, Vol. 1: Agamemnon/Prometheus Bound/Oedipus the King/Antigone/Hippolytus Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women Medea (Dover Thrift Editions) Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Medea and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) Bacchae Bacchae (Dover Thrift Editions) The Bacchae and Other Plays Publisher: Penguin Classics; Revised edition Ten Plays by Euripides Greek Tragedies, Volume 2 The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), Electra (Sophocles), Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, & The Trojan Women (Euripides) An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides
