Euripides, 4 : Ion, Children of Heracles, the Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes (Penn Greek Drama Series)
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Euripides, 4 : Ion, Children of Heracles, the Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes (Penn Greek Drama Series)
The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. This volume includes translations Deborah H. Roberts (Ion), J. T. Barbarese (Children of Heracles), Katharine Washburn and David Curzon (The Madness of Heracles), Carolyn Kizer (Iphigenia in Tauris), and Greg Delanty (Orestes).
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
More Amazonian bungling!:
Yet again the folks at Amazon have bungled matters. The other "review" of this book is in fact a review of (or a puff for) the Penn series of translations of Greek tragedy, not of Euripides' "Selected Fragmentary Plays," a scholarly edition offering Greek texts, English translations, and detailed notes on several of Euripides' fragmentary plays. It should also noted that the book in question is the recently published---and long-awaited---second volume of a work whose first volume appeared in 1995.... more info
a return to classics:
I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as Medea--it settled an argument too on how it 'originally' ended.
