In Greek mythology, Medea is a sorceress who was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides...
The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer's Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC. This new edition, with introduction and commentary, discusses textual problems,...
Euripides IV contains the plays âHelen,â translated by Richmond Lattimore; âThe Phoenician Women,â translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and âOrestes,â...
Euripides III contains the plays âHeracles,â translated by William Arrowsmith; âThe Trojan Women,â translated by Richmond Lattimore; âIphigenia among the Taurians,&a...
Euripides II contains the plays âAndromache,â translated by Deborah Roberts; âHecuba,â translated by William Arrowsmith; âThe Suppliant Women,â...
Her husband's gone and her future isn't bright. Imprisoned in her marital home, Medea can't work, can't sleep and increasingly can't cope. While her child plays, she plots her revenge.
Euripides wrote two plays called "Hippolytus." In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as it might have appeared in unprocessed form...