Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae Four Plays

by Euripides

• ISBN13: 9781585100484
• ISBN10: 158510048X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781585105991
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: HACKETT
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Summary

This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides' plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae. 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 published each play as an individual edition.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(34)
Medea	35	(58)
A.J. Podlecki
Hippolytus	93	(56)
Michael R. Halleran
Heracles	149	(56)
Michael R. Halleran
Bacchae	205	(63)
Stephen Esposito
Map	268	(1)
Appendix One: The Hippolytus: An Interpretacion	269	(15)
Michael R. Halleran
Appendix Two: The Heracles: An Interpretacion	284	(15)
Michael R. Halleran
Bibliography	299