Ten Plays
by:
Euripides (author)
Moses Hadas (author)
ISBN:
9780553115086 (0553115081)
Pages no: 358
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
College,
Poetry,
Greece,
Tragedy,
Mythology
The short introductions for each plays are sufficient to help the reader's appreciation, but not too long to be off-putting. I suppose perhaps even a little too short.
Paul Roche's translations are very good: readable and often preserving elements of the original Greek. Pay attention to his footnotes, though, since that is where he notes problem lines and/or his own interpolations (in particular in the Bacchae).I found his introductions not particularly useful, an...
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