Review (PDF) Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children Of Heracles, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
Euripides I contains the plays “Alcestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Medea,” translated by Oliver Taplin; “The Children of Heracles,” translated by Mark Griffith; and “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. 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 The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.
Series: The Complete Greek Tragedies
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 3 edition (April 19, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226308804
ISBN-13: 978-0226308807
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Although these stories were written centuries ago, they still apply today. All of them draw you in, and my personal favorite is Medea!
I needed Alcestis and Medea out of this book with line numbers, so this met my needs well. Thank you customer support for helping me find this as well.
The book was exactly what was advertised.
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