The Complete Euripides, Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays

by Euripides, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro

Overview

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.

This volume collects Euripides' Andromache, a play that challenges the concept of tragic character and transforms expectations of tragic structure; Hecuba, a powerful story of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character; Trojan Women, a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty; and Rhesos, the story of a futile quest for knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195388664
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2010
Series:	Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Peter Burian is Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies at Duke University.

Alan Shapiro is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A winner of the prestigious Lila Wallace Reader's Digest award 1992-95, he is the author of several poetry collections, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy.

Burian and Shapiro are editors of the Greek Tragedy in Translations series.

Table of Contents

iAndromache/i, Susan Stewart and Wesley D. SmithiHecuba/i, Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. ReckfordiTrojan Women, Peter Burian and Alan ShapiroiRhesos/i, Richard Emil Braun