Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea

Name: Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea
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ISBN: 9780674995604

ISBN-10: 0674995600

ISBN-13: 9780674995604

Edition: 2nd 1994

Authors: Euripides, David Kovacs

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Euripides of Athens (ca. 485-406 BC), famous in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations, wrote nearly ninety plays. Of these, eighteen (plus a play of unknown authorship mistakenly included with his works) have come down to us from antiquity. In this first volume of a new Loeb edition of Euripides David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text of three plays and an accurate and graceful translation with explanatory notes. Alcestis is the story of a woman who agrees, in order to save her husband's life, to die in his place. Medea is a tragedy of revenge in which Medea kills her own children, as well as their father's…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.37" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

David Kovacs is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.



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Abbreviations Cyclops


Introduction Text and Translation Alcestis


Introduction Text and Translation Medea


Introduction Text and Translation