Euripides of Athens (ca. 485-406 BCE), famous in every age for the
pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of
his dramatic creations, wrote nearly ninety plays. Of these,
eighteen (plus a play of unknown authorship mistakenly included
with his works) have come down to us from antiquity. In this first
volume of a new Loeb edition of Euripides David Kovacs gives us a
freshly edited Greek text of three plays and an accurate and
graceful translation with explanatory notes.
"Alcestis" is the story of a woman who agrees, in order to save
her husband's life, to die in his place. "Medea" is a tragedy of
revenge in which Medea kills her own children, as well as their
father's new wife, to punish him for his desertion. The volume
begins with "Cyclops," a satyr play--the only complete example of
this genre to survive. Each play is preceded by an
introduction.
In a general introduction Kovacs demonstrates that the
biographical tradition about Euripides--parts of which view him as
a subverter of morality, religion, and art--cannot be relied on. He
argues that this tradition has often furnished the unacknowledged
starting point for interpretation, and that the way is now clear
for an unprejudiced consideration of the plays themselves.
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