This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911. An introduction surveys the play,... Læs mere
Professor Diggle has examined all the manuscript evidence and offers many decipherments. He gives a text of the play and of the hypothesis, a commentary and appendices, and he... Læs mere
This edition includes commentary which provides an introduction to one of Euripides' less well-known plays. The notes interpret the play in a wide cultural setting, considering unorthodox aspects of the structure of the drama.
Despite its great popularity in antiquity, and its importance as a link between classical Greek tragedy and later theatrical developments, this is the first English edition of Euripides' play... Læs mere
Euripides' "Heracles" is a tragedy with a serious theme, the sudden downfall of the good and the glorious. In this edition the editor has attempted to help the modern reader approach Euripides'... Læs mere
One of Euripides' late plays, Ion is a complex enactment of mortals' attempts to understand the actions of the gods and their own conflicted natures. The play's beauty and violence, its lyrical delicacy and nearly tragic action, offer a compelling view of the human condition.
Includes the plays "Heracles", "Iphigenia Among the Taurians", "Helen", "Ion", and "Cyclops".
This new Student Edition offers a much-needed pedagogical framework to the play, including an overview of the original performance context; the times within which Euripides was writing it; and how it's been understood and adapted since.
Three plays about women and the Trojan War, in fresh translations for the stage, the classroom, or the general reader. The publication of Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba in one volume also invites provocative engagement with issues of gender, history, warfare, and politics.
A new version of "Phaethon," unperformed since the fifth century BC, amounting to a new masterpiece. A tragic story of Phaethon, an illegitimate son of Helios. An ambitious young man, Phaethon... Læs mere
This is a new version from the Greek of Iphigenia in Aulis, by contemporaary playwright Colin Teevan. This translation and adaptation, which availed of the most recent textual scholarship of the source text, strips the piece down to its Euripidean essentials.