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Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae

Four Plays
By Euripides
Series: Focus Classical Library
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This anthology presents four of Euripides' most powerful tragedies—Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. Each play explores complex themes such as passion, revenge, divine intervention, and human suffering in the context of ancient Greek drama and mythology.
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Ideal for students and general readers interested in Greek drama, mythology, and culture, this collection offers accessible, faithful translations complemented by scholarly introductions and interpretive essays.

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A collection of Euripides' most important plays in one volume. Translations are taken in full text from other single volumes in the Focus Classical Library, by authors Michael Halleran, Anthony Podlecki, and Stephen Esposito, with notes and a new introduction.

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This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides' plays: Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. These translations remain close to the original, with extensive introductions, interpretive essays, and footnotes.

This series is designed to provide students and general readers with access to the nature of Greek drama, Greek mythology, and the context of Greek culture, as well as highly readable and understandable translations of four of Euripides' most important plays.

Focus also publishes each play as an individual volume.

Series: Focus Classical Library

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781585100484

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2002

Country: United States

Imprint: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Edition: New edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited and translated by Stephen Esposito
  • Translated by Michael R. Halleran
  • Translated by Anthony Podlecki

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 540g

Pages: 320

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Arts & Culture Euripides Non-Fiction Series: Focus Classical Library

About the Author

Stephen Esposito is Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University where, in 2009/10, he won Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Teaching Excellence. He has previously translated Euripides' "Bacchae" and edited "Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae", both for Focus Publishing. He is also the founding editor of the new Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries, the first volume of which will be his grammatical commentary (with running vocabulary) on Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos.

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