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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ISBN
9780226309347
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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