Three plays by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays is in six volumes.Three plays are in Volume IV. Trojan Women concerns the tragic unpredictability of life; Iphigenia among the Taurians and Ion exhibit tragic themes and situations but end happily with joyful reunions.
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Euripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.
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Kovacs’s translations are in fairly literal…and yet very readable English prose. Both experts and generalists will benefit from the work of this experienced Euripidean scholar.

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ISBN
9780674995741
Publisert
1999-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
LOEB
Vekt
336 gr
Høyde
162 mm
Bredde
108 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
528

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Biographical note

David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.