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Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 4)

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As usual, I have little more to say than to praise the quality of the translation, and lament the lack of footnotes within this volume of the Lattimore/Grene collection. One thing I'll add the the "untraditional" sense of this volume. It opens with the only extant satyr-play, and closes with two very similar plays that present Euripides alternative visions of the Trojan War.

I've been participating in a bok group that is spending the entire year reading plays by Euripides and it has been a revelation. This volume is ably translated, although it makes sense to check other translations if you wish to engage deeply with the meaning of the text. I had not read this literature since college and am relishing the experience.

This edition of the Euripides plays contains the rarely read "Cyclops", not a great play but important nevertheless to a complete understanding of Euripides or Greek drama in my opinion. Just as the other translations in this series is rather conservative, so too is this edition. A good, reasonably priced version for undergraduate classes.