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  • Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Signet; Mass Paperback Edition edition (October 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0451527003
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451527004
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5.0 out of 5 starsTen plays by Euripides, the first playwright of democracy
By Lawrance Bernabo HALL OF FAME on July 24, 2003
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Euripides was the youngest and the least successful of the great triad of Greek tragic poets. Criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, his plays were ridiculed by Aristophanes in "The Frogs." His plays exhibited his iconoclastic, rationalizing attitude toward the ancient myths that were the subject matter for Greek drama. For Euripides the gods were irrational and petulant, while heroes had flawed natures and uncontrolled passions that made them ultimately responsible for their tragic fates. Ultimately, your standard Euripides tragedy offers meaningless suffering upon which the gods look with complete indifference (until they show up at the end as the deux ex machina). However, today Euripides is considered the most popular of the Greek playwrights and is considered by many to be the father of modern European drama.
This volume does not include all of the extant plays of Euripides (we believe he authored 92 plays, 19 of which have survived), but what are arguably the ten most important: "Alcestis," "Medea," "Hippolytus," "Andromache," "Ion," "Trojan Women," "Electra," "Iphigenia Among the Taurians," "The Bacchants," and "Iphigenia at Aulis." The translations by Moses Hadas and John McLean are not as literate as you will find elsewhere, but they are eminently functional and make this volume one of the most cost-effective ways of providing students an opportunity to study the work of a great dramatist.
After reading several Euripides tragedies several things emerge in our understanding of his work. First, he has a unique structure for his plays decidedly different from those of Aeschylus and Sophocles.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent translations. The best Medea I've ever read.
By realrachel@aol.com on July 17, 2001
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I am a theatre director and playwright. I read every translation of Medea I could find. This 1998 translation by Roche, after twenty years of ripening, is fresh, clear, and strong. He prioritized retaining the ( ( ( s o u n d ) ) ) of the ancient greek, and his poet's ear captured its slippery almost-iambic trimeter perfectly. A powerful, haunting, contemporary translation. "Deep is her sobbing from depths of pain/ Shrill is the answer her suffering gives/ To the news of a woman betrayed/ A love gone wrong..." A mature poet's text, translated by an equally sensitive poet. It doesn't get any better than this.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBest translation I've read!
By K Priest on October 12, 1999
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I'm an acting teacher, and this is the best translation I've come across. It's very readable and actable. Most other translations take a formal equivalency approach but this one is more dynamic equivalency. For an acting student, the text is immediate and realistic rather than awkward.
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1.0 out of 5 starsToo much Roche - not enough Euripides
By Kelli M. Mcbride on November 7, 2002
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Roche's translations of Euripides' tragedies are intrusive. He adds stage directions and characterizations that influence how the reader views the people in the plays. Readers may believe that these stage directions are from Euripides, but most of them are not. I find it irksome having to differentiate between Roche's interpretation of character and Euripides' text.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMore a dramatist, less a tragedian
By A.J. on May 19, 2003
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Euripides is not a definitive tragedian (in the Aristotelian notion) like his contemporary Sophocles; although he mines the same subject matter, he exhibits a number of stylistic differences and peculiarities. His plays tend to begin with a single character delivering a soliloquy that introduces the background of the story, and he makes frequent use of a "deus ex machina" at the end in order to set things right, or as right as they can be.
The biggest difference between Sophocles and Euripides is their approach to tragedy. Sophocles uses tragedy as an enhancement of nobility, an illumination of heroic dignity and grandeur; to Euripides it is just ugly, crude, and awkward, like a ketchup stain on your shirt. Tragedy elevates the Sophoclean hero to a state of fearsome awe, but it merely reduces the Euripidean hero to an object of pity and even derision. In this sense Euripides is more of a realist and a humanist, and therefore more modern.
Euripides's plays transform classical mythology not into morality lessons but into drama in a very basic, empathic mode. He makes the most of every dramatic situation: Medea, who kills her children to punish her unfaithful husband Jason; Hector's widow Andromache, who is enslaved by Achilles's son Neoptolemus and is accused by his wife Hermione of seducing him; Ion, son of Apollo by the rape of Creusa and attendant at his temple, in a classic plot of mistaken identity; Pentheus, king of Thebes, who is murdered by frenzied Bacchantes, one of whom is his own mother; Iphigenia, who is sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to ensure Greek victory in the Trojan War. There is a very clear path that connects Euripides with the conventions of two and a half millenia of Western literature. He might not have been as famous or as respected as Sophocles, but he is no less important a dramatist.
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By Lawrance Bernabo HALL OF FAME on July 24, 2003
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Euripides was the youngest and the least successful of the great triad of Greek tragic poets. Criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, his plays were ridiculed by Aristophanes in "The Frogs." His plays exhibited his iconoclastic, rationalizing attitude toward the ancient myths that were the subject matter for Greek drama. For Euripides the gods were irrational and petulant, while heroes had flawed natures and uncontrolled passions that made them ultimately responsible for their tragic fates. Ultimately, your standard Euripides tragedy offers meaningless suffering upon which the gods look with complete indifference (until they show up at the end as the deux ex machina). However, today Euripides is considered the most popular of the Greek playwrights and is considered by many to be the father of modern European drama.
This volume does not include all of the extant plays of Euripides (we believe he authored 92 plays, 19 of which have survived), but what are arguably the ten most important: "Alcestis," "Medea," "Hippolytus," "Andromache," "Ion," "Trojan Women," "Electra," "Iphigenia Among the Taurians," "The Bacchants," and "Iphigenia at Aulis." The translations by Moses Hadas and John McLean are not as literate as you will find elsewhere, but they are eminently functional and make this volume one of the most cost-effective ways of providing students an opportunity to study the work of a great dramatist.
After reading several Euripides tragedies several things emerge in our understanding of his work. First, he has a unique structure for his plays decidedly different from those of Aeschylus and Sophocles.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starseuripides is always so nice to read

euripides is always so nice to read , lots of greek history , a good place to learn about the characters of Homer's poems

Published 7 months ago by Brian Ebers
4.0 out of 5 starsSatisfying Euripides

Ten Plays Euripides, translated by Moses Hadas and John Mclean, gives a solidly satisfying experience of the works of the Greek playwright. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Christopher Greffin
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Good way to get books

Published 11 months ago by José Ponte
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Great plays. The cover of the book took a little beating though.

Published 15 months ago by MPH
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Thank you :)

Published 15 months ago by CSS
2.0 out of 5 starsCrappy Translations

Euripedes is obviously great, but these translations are awful. Read Robinson Jeffers translation of Medea if you want to see how great these plays can be.

Published 19 months ago by James Ruggia
5.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent purchase. Thank you

As described. An excellent purchase. Thank you!

Published 19 months ago by J.J. Haugh
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

nice book, thanks

Published 19 months ago by robert
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Cool. Definitely read the pieces in this book. Too good to be true.

Published 22 months ago by Sora
5.0 out of 5 starsShocking, heartbreaking plays in a very useful collection

Not being able to translate Attic Greek, I can't comment on the translation; but I must say that these versions are wonderfully readable (MUCH more so than the translation I had to... Read more

Published on July 20, 2014 by M.E.Anderson

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