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Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Paperback – April 19, 2013

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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.
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Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; Third edition (April 19, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 265 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226308804
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226308807
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.15 x 5.78 x 0.55 inches
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Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpᵻdiːz/ or /jɔːˈrɪpᵻdiːz/; Greek: Εὐριπίδης; Ancient Greek: [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]) (c. 480 – 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets",[nb 1] focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of...that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

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You can decide for yourself whether you like the substance of this classic work. This review refers to the University of Chicago Press edition.

The translations are excellent and very readable, as are the introductions to each work. The UC Press publication is very high quality. Smooth paper for margin notes and crisp printing.
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I'm now retired (though not old enough to have met the playwright!) and have some more time for "remedial humanities."
After taking a course in ancient Greek theater, I wanted to read these.
It's a very good, readable translation that conveys the spirit of the original.
If you're a Euripides fan (and I'm talking to both of you!), you'll enjoy it.
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I needed Alcestis and Medea out of this book with line numbers, so this met my needs well. Thank you Amazon customer support for helping me find this as well.
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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!
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Tyler
5.0 out of 5 stars Entire series is good for new
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Entire series is good for new, English translations of the tragedies. They are easy to read and good for a non-Greek study of the plays. Notes in series are rather pathetic, though and would really benefit from a review and expansion rather than having so many simply say 'Lines missing/corrupted/uncertain.'

But, in an English translation I guess notes on Greek text are rather pointless. Still, notes could be expanded to include information on other, more important topics such as imagery and its meaning in the context of Classical Greek society.
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This series has become the standard scholarly translation and has earned its place on anyone's bookshelf - preferably in hardcover so that many readers can enjoy reading these timeless plays
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