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This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, and includes a commentary designed for university-level Greek classes, from second-year upward. This translation helps students to appreciate the work's artistry and relationship to its culture and performance tradition. The introduction summarizes interpretive and cultural issues and provides background on important aspects of Greek tragedy, including language, style and meter. ... Read more

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An Excellent Edition of a Powerful Play
I completely agree with Artemesia's review. I read this in my fourth semester of studying Greek, never having read the play in translation, and wow, it's absolutely incredible! If you want a scholarly text of a powerful play, sure to entrance students with its horror and beauty, then this is it.

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This book contains the Greek text of Euripides' Medea with a comprehensive commentary by Donald Mastronarde. The commentary is very thorough and helpful, geared not only to the undergraduate with grammar references (to Smyth), explanatory notes, unusual vocabulary, and hapaxes, but also includes scholarly references in places. I found the commentary less frustrating than many - it offered clear notes on nearly all of the questions I had as I read, and was good at explaining vernacular expressions. There were also good explanations on how each stasimon and episode related to the work as a whole.

But in particular, the introductory sections - the first 108 pages of 425 pages - are really comprehensive. There are chapters on Euripides the playwright, the structure and themes of the work, the Medea myth and the work's contribution to it, problems, other versions of the Medea myth and its life after Euripides' version, the text, and a really good clear section on the structural elements of Greek tragedy (which I have bookmarked for future reference). Then there are sections on language and style, and meter.

I have come to expect excellence from the Cambridge series and I must say that I haven't been disappointed by this edition. ... Read more

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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 first 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 reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians.

This edition of the fragments, concluded in this second volume, offers the first complete English translation together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

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VOL. 2 of the Complete Fragments of Euripides!
This volume completes the gathering of Euripides' fragments in the new Loeb series (of 2008).Brilliantly presented and translated by Collard and Cropp, this is an indispensible addition to any collector and lover of Ancient Greek drama!

The Table of Contents in this edition is:

- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- 25 PLAYS (O-X) in FRAGMENTS
- Fragments of Unidentified Plays
- Doubtful or Spurious Fragments
- Appendix: Critias or Euripides (4 PLAYS in FRAGMENTS)
- Index of Names and Places
- Index of Narrative and Dramatic Features
- Index of Topics

As always, each play fragment is prefaced by a summary of its content, and has the facing original Greek on the opposite page.

(It would be best to obtain and own both volumes of Euripides' fragments, just not to leave any gaps!)

An invaluable set for those who wish to learn more about that amazing Master of ancient Greek drama...his genius, his craft and his profundity!

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The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Subtitle: Translations by E.d.a. Morshead, E.h. Plumptre, Gilbert Murray and B.b. Rogers, With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsOriginal Publisher: P.F. Collier Publication date: 1909Subjects: DramaGreek drama; Oedipus (Greek mythology); Antigone (Greek mythology); Drama / Ancient, Classical ... Read more

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Alcestis is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant--as well as most controversial--plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no annotated edition in English has appeared for more than fifty years. The present work is designed to aid close reading and to serve as an introduction to the serious study of the play in its various aspects. The introduction covers the background to the story in myth and folktale, its treatment by other writers from antiquity to the present, the critical reception of Euripides' play, and its textual transmission and meters. The notes are designed in particular to help readers who have been learning Greek for a relatively short time. More advanced matter, such as discussion of textual problems, is placed in square brackets at the end of the note. ... Read more

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'Orestes' was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending.

Nevertheless, 'Orestes' is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because 'Orestes' does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'Greek tragedy' should be. This book makes 'Orestes' accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy. If we are to appreciate what is unusual about the play, we have to think in terms of its impact on its original audience. What did they expect from a tragedy, and what would they have made of 'Orestes'? ... Read more

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Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world from his. The theme is really a double one: the suffering of the victims of war, exemplified by the woman who survive the fall of Troy, and the degradation of the victors, shown by the Greeks' reckless and ultimately self-destructive behavior. It offers an enduring picture of human fortitude in the midst of despair.Trojan Women gains special relevance, of course, in times of war.It presents a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty, but one that is also rooted in considerations of power and policy, morality and expedience. Furthermore, the seductions of power and the dangers both of its exercise and of resistance to it as portrayed in Trojan Women are not simply philosophical or rhetorical gambits but part of the lived experience of Euripides' day. And their analogues in our own day lie all too close at hand.

This new powerful translation of Trojan Women includes an illuminating introduction, explanatory notes, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading. ... Read more

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference.

The volume collects Euripides' Electra, an exciting story of vengence that counterposes suspense and horror with comic realism; Orestes, the tragedy of a young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father; Iphigenia in Tauris, a delicately written and beautifully contrived Euripidean "romance"; and Iphigenia at Aulis, a compelling look at the devastating consequence of "man's inhumanity to man." ... Read more

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New Edition of Eurpidies
Oxford has published a new edition of the plays of Euridies translated by modern poets. They are exciting to read.

The volume is part of an Oxford series of the plays of the great ancient Greek tragdians. Each play is proceeding by a insightful introduction which places the work in its historical context, as well as within the works of the author, and offers commentary on the plot and characters of the drama.

The translations here for enjoyable reading.

If you have not picked up these plays since college, its time to try them again. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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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 reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians.

This edition, in a projected two volumes, offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

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Indispensible for understanding Euripides!
This new Loeb edition (Vol. 1) of Euripides' fragments released in 2008 is a gem of historical proportions!Never before have all the collected fragments of Euripides been gathered together in their Greek originals alongside an English translation.

The translation is true to the original as well as readibly accesible in a comtemporary idiom by Euripides scholars Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp.

Contained in this volume is:

- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- 35 PLAYS (A-M) in FRAGMENTS
- Index


Each play is prefaced by its own summary, which is nice since many are almost unintelligble by their minimal fragments.

I think that anyone who has a love for Ancient Greek drama, would benefit enormously from this collection in so many unimaginable ways! ... Read more

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Volume: 2General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1858Original Publisher: Henry G. BohnNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: ADDITIONAL NOTES.A. Vs. 246, IvOavtiv ye. " Pravam esse scripturam dici Brunckius et Corayus viderunt; quorum ille legere voluit iaar ivraKrjvat, hie vero war' iftpattv. Sed neuter rem acu tetigit. Euripides scripsit: iaar lv yt tpvvat, uti patet ex Hom. II. Z. 253, lv T apa 01 ipv ftpl, Od. n. 21, iravra. Kvatv irtpnpvf, Theocrit. Id. xiii. 47, ral S' lv xtpi iraaat upvaav, et, quod rem conflcit, ex Euripidis ipsius Ion. 891, tvKolf S' lptpvaaf Kapirols upiav." G. Burges, apud Bevue de Philologie, vol. i. No. 5. p. 457.B. We must, I think, read ToXpv.C. Dindorf disposes these lines differently, but I prefer Person's arrangement, as follows:EK. IK/JXi/rov, ft irea. 0. Sopof; OEP. iv v''a/ta.0i/i tvpf Itovtov viv, K. r, . OEESTES,PERSONS REPRESENTED.ELECTRA.HELEN.HEKUIONE.CHORUS.ORESTES.MENELAUS.TYNDARUS.PYLADES.A PHRYGIAN.APOLLO. chapter{Section 4THE ARGUMENT.Orestes, in revenge for the murder of his father, took off Egisthus and Cly temnestra; but having dared to slay his mother, he was instantly punished for it by being afflicted with madness. But on Tyndarus, the father of her who was slain, laying an accusation against him, the Argives were about to give a public decision on this question," What ought he, who has dared this impious deed, to suffer ?" By chance Menelaus, having returned from his wanderings, sent in Helen indeed by night, but himself came by day, and being entreated by Orestes to aid him, he rather feared Tyndarus the accuser : but when the speeches came to be spoken among the populace, the multitude ... ... Read more

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This file includes 10 tragedies by Euripides, literally translated by Theodore Buckley.The plays are: HECUBA, ORESTES, PHOENISSAE (The Phoenician Virgins), MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, ALCESTIS, BACCHAE, HERACLIDAE, IPHIGENIA IN AULIS, and IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS. According to Wikipedia: "Euripides (ca. 480 BCE–406 BCE) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his. Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. Euripides is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of Athenian tragedy by portraying strong female characters and intelligent slaves and by satirizing many heroes of Greek mythology. His plays seem modern by comparison with those of his contemporaries, focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown to Greek audiences."
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.

Collected here for the first time in the series are four major works by Euripides all set in Athens: Hippoltos, translated by Robert Bagg, a dramatic interpretation of the tragedy of Phaidra; Suppliant Women, translated by Rosanna Warren and Steven Scully, a powerful examination of the human psyche; Ion, translated by W. S. Di Piero and Peter Burian, a complex enactment of the changing relations between the human and divine orders; and The Children of Herakles, translated by Henry Taylor and Robert A. Brooks, a descriptive tale of the descendants of Herakles and their journey home. These four tragedies were originally avialble as single volumes. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combines glossary and Greek line numbers. ... Read more

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New Edition of Eurpidies
Oxford has published a new edition of the plays of Euridies translated by modern poets. They are exciting to read.

The volume is part of an Oxford series of the plays of the great ancient Greek tragdians. Each play is proceeding by a insightful introduction which places the work in its historical context, as well as within the works of the author, and offers commentary on the plot and characters of the drama.

The translations here for enjoyable reading.

If you have not picked up these plays since college, its time to try them again. ... Read more

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This edition provides an introduction and commentary (including metrical analysis) to this intriguing 'pro-satyr' play, based on a Thessalian legend. ... Read more

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Five classic works by Euripides with an active table of contents.

Works include:
Alcestis
The Electra
Hippolytus & The Bacchae
Tragedies of Euripides
The Trojan Women ... Read more

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One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BC) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the fourth volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition that is receiving much praise, is the text and translation of three of his plays. Trojan Women, a play about the causes and consequences of war, develops the theme of the tragic unpredictability of life. Iphigenia among the Taurians and Ion exhibit tragic themes and situations (the murder of close relatives). Each ends happily with a joyful reunion. As in the first three volumes of this edition, David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text and an admired new translation that, in the words of Greece and Rome, is "close to the Greek and reads fluently and well"; his introduction to each play and explanatory notes offer readers judicious guidance. ... Read more

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I purchased 3 copies of this volume of Euripides as gift presentation books for 3 of my graduating acting students, who had all performed major roles in our own production of THE TROJAN WOMEN earlier this year.I was EXTREMELY annoyed to find, upon receiving the books, that a large, non-removable adhesive paper label (reading "NEW TRANSLATION") had been plastered across the paper cover of each book.Each label was dirty, smeared and misaligned--one was half torn off the cover; all were impossible to remove with damaging the book cover.An extremely disappointing situation--these books are now completely inappropriate to give as graduation awards.

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Solid, reliable parallel text versions of three plays by Euripides.The translator presents a highly questionable view of The Trojan Women in his Introduction to the play.He claims the drama has no connection with "current events" in the Peloponnesian War, while it's next to incredible that a Greek play has no political subtext.Readers should seek out alternative readings of The Trojan Women.

Three later plays by Euripides provided in English and Greek
This volume from the Loeb Classical Libary offers up parallel English translations and original Greek texts for three classic Greek tragedies by Euripides: "Trojan Women," "Iphigenia Among the Taurians," and "Ion."

As preparations were made for the ruinous expedition against Syracuse, Euripides wrote "The Trojan Women," as a plea for peace. In this play the Greeks do more than enslave women: they have already slain a young girl as a sacrifice to the ghost of Achilles and they take Astyanax, the son of Hector, out of the arms of his mother so that he can be thrown from the walls of Troy. Even the herald of the Greeks, Talthybius, cannot stomach the policies of his people, but is powerless to do anything other than offer hollow words of sympathy.The play also has a strong literary consideration in that the four Trojan Women--Hecuba, Queen of Troy; Cassandra, daughter of Hecuba and Priestess of Apollo; Andromache, widow of Hector; and Helen--all appear in the final chapter of Homer's epic poem the "Iliad," mourning over the corpse of Hector. Of all the Achean leaders we hear about in Homer, only Menelaus, husband of Helen, appears. He appears, ready to slay Helen for having abandoned him to run off to Troy with Paris, but we see his anger melt before her beauty and soothing tones."The Trojan Women" also reminds us that while we think of Helen as "the face that launched a thousand ships," she was a despised figure amongst the ancient Greeks and there is no satisfaction in her saving her life. The idea that all of these men died just so that she could be returned to the side of her husband is an utter mockery of the dead.

Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis, but at the last minute the sacrifice was replaced with a stage.In "Iphigenia Among the Taurians" the dramatist explains the young girl was taken to a temple of Artemis in Tauris.The play takes place many years later as Iphigenia's brother Orestes, trying to appease the Furies for his crime of matricide, is ordered by the god Apollo to bring the statue of Artemis from Tauris to Athens, who have a tradition of sacrificing strangers. This play is really more of a tragicomedy than a traditional Greek tragedy consisting of a key scene of recognition ("anagnorisis") and a clever escape by the main characters. The recognition scene between Orestes and Iphigenia is well done, and atypical since there is joy in the "anagnorisis" rather than pain or death."Iphigenia Among the Taurians" takes place after the Orestia trilogy by Aeschylus and one of the more interesting elements of this play is the idea that Orestes had been hallucinating when he was seeing the Furies pursuing him. This is a rather rational explanation for his behavior following the murder of Clytemnestra and Aegithus.The key thing here is that you simply have to understand the entire background of the characters, both in terms of "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Orestia," to really understand this play.

In "Ion" Apollo, the god of truth, brutally rapes a helpless young girl, Creusa, and then abandons her. Creusa has a son, whom she abandons in a cave; when she goes back to find the child, he is gone. Years later she marries Xuthus, a solider of fortune who becomes king of Athens. At the start of the play Xuthus and Creusa are childless and go to Delphi for aid. There they are told that Ion, a young temple servant who has been raised from infancy, is the son of Xuthus. Creusa, outraged that Apollo let their own son die but preserved the life of a child begotten by Xuthus on some Delphian woman, tries to have Ion killed. Of course, in reality, Ion is her own child, abandoned in that cave. Condemned to death by the Delphians, Creusa escapes Ion's vengeance by taking refuge at Apollo's altar. There the priestess presents the tokens that allow Creusa to recognize Ion as her own son. Telling him the truth about his father, Ion tries to enter the temple to demand of Apollo the truth.

The common denominator for these plays is that they represent the last period of the career of Euripides, when his lyrics became much more emotional, which become quite powerful in plays like "Trojan Women" and "The Bacchae."The other key theme is the cynicism of Euripides towards the gods in general, and Apollo in particular; in addition to apparently wanting Orestes to die in Taurus, the God of Truth lies about being the father of Ion. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more