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

by Euripides, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195388688
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	07/06/2010
Series:	Greek Tragedy in New Translations Series
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Peter Burian is Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies at Duke University.
Alan Shapiro is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the 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.
Burian and Shapiro are editors of the Greek Tragedy in Translations series.

Table of Contents

Electra. Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford
Orestes. John Peck and Frank Nisetich
Iphigenia at Tauris. Richard Lattimore
Iphigenia at Aulis. W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock