Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea

Euripides, David Kovacs

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Harvard Uni.Press Academi
01 January 1994

Plays & playscripts; Literary essays; History; Ancient Greek

Series: Loeb Classical Library

Euripides of Athens (ca. 485–406 BCE), 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 new wife, to punish him for his desertion. The volume begins with Cyclops, a satyr play-the only complete example of this genre to survive. Each play is preceded by an introduction.

In a general introduction Kovacs demonstrates that the biographical tradition about Euripides-parts of which view him as a subverter of morality, religion, and art-cannot be relied on. He argues that this tradition has often furnished the unacknowledged starting point for interpretation, and that the way is now clear for an unprejudiced consideration of the plays themselves.

By: Euripides
Edited and translated by: David Kovacs
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: No. 12
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780674995604
ISBN 10: 0674995600
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 01 January 1994
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea

An excellent 48-page general introduction...The translation...is close to the Greek and reads fluently and well. All in all this is an excellent little volume.