This first volume of Euripides' tragedies presents English translations of ten ancient Greek plays, including Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Bacchae, Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenician Women, Heraclidae, and the two Iphigenia plays. The dramas draw on myth to explore family conflict, revenge, fate, and the gods. They remain rewarding for listeners interested in classical drama and its enduring questions.
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Opening of the book
THE TRAGEDIES OF EURIPIDES. LITERALLY TRANSLATED OR REVISED, WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, OF CHRIST CHURCH. VOL. I. HECUBA, ORESTES, PHŒNISSÆ, MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, ALCESTIS, BACCHÆ, HERACLIDÆ, IPHIGENIA IN AULIDE, AND IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1892. PREFACE. INTRODUCTION. HECUBA.
ORESTES.
THE PHŒNICIAN VIRGINS.
MEDEA.
HIPPOLYTUS.
ALCESTIS.
THE BACCHÆ.
THE HERACLIDÆ.
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS.
IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS.
PREFACE.
The translations of the first six plays in the present volume were published at Oxford some years since, and have been frequently reprinted. They are now carefully revised according to Dindorf's text, and are accompanied by a few additional notes adapted to the requirements of the student.
The translations of the Bacchæ, Heraclidæ, and the two Iphigenias, are based upon the same text, with certain exceptions, which are pointed out at the foot of the page. The annotations on the Iphigenias are almost exclusively critical, as it is presumed that a student who proceeds to the reading of these somewhat difficult plays[1], will be sufficiently advanced in his acquaintance with the Greek drama to dispense with more elementary information.
T.A. BUCKLEY,
CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD.
[1] The reader will obtain some notion of the difficulties alluded to, and the best mode of grappling with them, by consulting the recent Cambridge edition, published with
English notes (Iph. in Aulide, 1840, in Tauris, 1846), performances of great critical acumen, attributed to the present Bishop of Gloucester.
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