The Complete Euripides: Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference.

The volume collects Euripides' Electra, an exciting story of vengence that counterposes suspense and horror with comic realism; Orestes, the tragedy of a young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father; Iphigenia in Tauris, a delicately written and beautifully contrived Euripidean romance; and Iphigenia at Aulis, a compelling look at the devastating consequence of man's inhumanity to man.


Author: Peter Burian
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/30/2010
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780195388695
ISBN10: 0195388690
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Ancient & Classical
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical

About the Author

Peter Burian is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies, Duke University.

Alan Shapiro is Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A winner of the prestigious Lila Wallace Reader's Digest award 1992-95, he is the author of several poetry collections, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy.

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