Euripides III contains the plays “Heracles,” translated by William
Arrowsmith; “The Trojan Women,” translated by Richmond Lattimore;
“Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; and
“Ion,” translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts. 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
9780226309361
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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