books by Euripides     books:       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 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 ...             Ten Plays by Euripides8 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 ...             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 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 ...             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 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.             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.             Medea (Dover Thrift Editions)28 reviews Euripides Dover Publications, 1993 It's all Greek to me. Wonderful play, great translation. Collier really makes ancient Greek understandable and enjoyable. Great edition.             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.             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 ...             Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics) Euripides Penguin Classics, 1999 Written during a period overshadowed by the fierce struggle for supremacy between Sparta and Euripides' native Athens, these five plays are haunted by the shadow of war - and in particular its impact on women. In "Electra" the children of Agamemnon take bloody revenge on their mother for murdering their father after his return from Troy, and "Suppliant Women" depicts the grieving mothers of those killed in battle. The other plays deal with the ...             Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoriative Modern Translations1 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. ...             Euripides: Helen (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) Euripides Cambridge University Press, 2008 This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife (not an adulteress) who went to Egypt (not to Troy), Euripides' 'new Helen' skilfully transforms and supplants earlier currents of literature and myth. The Introduction elucidates Euripides' ...             Hippolytos (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)1 review Euripides Oxford University Press, USA, 1992 Hippolytus makes the mistake of scorning the goddess of love "Hippolytus" is set at the palace of Theseus at Troezen, where on each side are statutes of the goddesses Aphrodite and Artemis. This classic Greek tragedy by Euripides opens with Aphrodite declaring her power over all mankind and her intention to ruin Hippolytus, the son of Theseus and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, because he alone has had the audacity to scorn love. Instead, the young prince ...             The Trojan Women Euripides Digireads.com, 2006 "In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that The Trojan Women, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. "It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music." Yet it is one of the greater dramas of the elder world. In one situation, with little movement, with few figures, it flashes out a great dramatic lesson, the infinite pathos of a successful wrong. It has in it the very soul of the ...             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 ...             Alcestis: A Play Euripides Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called "one of the great works of our century" (Michael Hofmann, The Times , London), his Oresteia of Aeschylus is considered the difinitive version, and his Phèdre was acclaimed on stage in New York as well as London. Hughes's version of Euripides's Alcestis , the last of his ...             Five Great Greek Tragedies (Thrift Edition)1 review Sophocles, Euripides, ... 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