The Complete Euripides: Volume I: Trojan Women and Other PlaysPeter Burian, Alan Shapiro 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. This volume collects Euripides' Andromache, a play that challenges the concept of tragic character and transforms expectations of tragic structure; Hecuba, a powerful story of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character; Trojan Women, a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty; and Rhesos, the story of a futile quest for knowledge. |
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Achilles Aeneas Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax Andromache andromache hecuba andromache Andromache’s antistrophe Aphrodite Apollo Astyanax Athena Athenian audience barbarian beautiful camp Cassandra child chorus hecuba chorus leader chorus peleus dance daughter dead death diomedes Dolon drama driver enemy episode Euripidean Euripides eyes fate father fear goddess gods Greece Greek tragedy grief hand hate Hecuba hecuba chorus Hektor Helen hermione Homer honor horses human husband Iliad killed king lament live lyric marriage Menelaus mother murder Muse Neoptolemus never Odysseus Orestes Paris Peleus Phthia play play’s Polydorus polymestor Polyxena Poseidon Priam queen revenge Rhesos sail scene second soldier sentries shame ships sing slave soldier leader song Sparta speak spear speech stage stasimon strophe suffering talthybius tell temple There’s Thetis third soldier Thrace Thracian tomb translation Trojan Women Troy Troy’s What’s wife woman words Zeus