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The Bacchae and Other Plays
Translated by John Davie with an
Introduction and Notes by
Richard Rutherford
The plays of Euripides have stimulated
audiences since the fifth century BC. This
volume, containing Phoenician Women,
Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and
Rhesus, completes the new editions of
Euripides in Penguin Classics.
432 pp. 978-0-14-044726-2 $12.00
Electra and Other Plays
Translated by John Davie with an
Introduction by Richard Rutherford
Written in the period from 426 to
415 b.c., during the fierce struggle for
supremacy between Athens and Sparta,
these five plays are haunted by the horrors
of war, and in particular its impact on
women. Included are: Andromache,
Electra, Hecabe, Suppliant Women, and
Trojan Women.
220 pp. 978-0-14-044668-5 $11.00
Heracles and Other Plays
Translated by John Davie with an
Introduction by Richard Rutherford
The dramas that Euripides wrote toward
the end of his life are remarkable for their
stylistic innovation and adventurous plots.
In the plays in this collection—Heracles,
Cyclops, Iphigenia Among the Taurians,
Ion, and Helen—he weaves plots full of
startling shifts of tone and exploits the
comic potential found in traditional myth.
416 pp. 978-0-14-044725-5 $12.00
Medea and Other Plays
Translated by John Davie
Introduction and Notes by
Richard Rutherford
Euripides was the first of the great Greek
tragedians to depict the figures of ancient
mythology as fallible human beings.
Shocking to his contemporaries, the four
plays in this collection—Alcestis, Medea,
The Children of Heracles, and Hippolytus—
are uncannily modern not only in their
insights but also in their realistic portraits
of women, both good and evil.
240 pp. 978-0-14-044929-7 $12.00
Medea and Other Plays
Translated with an Introduction by
Philip Vellacott
Euripides was the first playwright to
use the chorus as commentator, to put
contemporary language into the mouths
of heroes, and to interpret human
suffering without reference to the gods.
These verse translations of Medea, Hecuba,
Electra, and Mad Heracles capture all the
brilliance of his work.
208 pp. 978-0-14-044129-1 $11.00
Orestes and Other Plays
Translated with an Introduction by
Philip Vellacott
Spanning the last twenty-four years of
Euripides’s career, this volume includes
The Children of Heracles, Andromache,
The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician
Women, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Aulis.
448 pp. 978-0-14-044259-5 $13.00
See The Portable Greek Reader and Greek Tragedy.
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