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ISBN-10: 0195068742

ISBN-13: 9780195068740

Edition: 1991

Authors: Euripides, Janet Lembke, Kenneth J. Reckford

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. If the line from a lost play, "There is no greater god than necessity," were all that survived of Euripides, we would have his…    
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/25/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.35" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Janet Lembke is the author of "Shake Them 'Simmons Down", "Skinny Dipping", "Dangerous Birds", "River Time", & "Looking for Eagles", & is a translator of Greek & Latin classics. She divides her time between Staunton, Virginia, & her home in North Carolina on the banks of her beloved Lower Neuse River.

Kenneth J. Reckford is the Kenan Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include "Aristophanes' Old-And-New Comedy".