Euripides III: Heracles, the Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies - Euripides III)

Euripides III contains the plays Heracles, trans by William Arrowsmith; The Trojan Women, trans by Richmond Lattimore; Iphigenia among the Taurians, trans by Anne Carson; & Ion, trans by Ronald Frederick Willetts. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists D. Grene & R. Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, & clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated 3rd edition, M. Griffith & G. W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, & Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, & the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New intro for each play offer essential info about its 1st production, plot, & reception in antiquity & beyond. In addition, each vol includes an intro to the life & work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties & a glossary of names & places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new content, the vol. have been reorganized both within & between vol. to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundati