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Dewey Decimal Number: 882.01 EAN: 9780812216264 ISBN: 0812216261 Label: University of Pennsylvania Press Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 300 Publication Date: January 01, 1998 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Studio: University of Pennsylvania Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Euripides is, of the three great Attic tragedians, perhaps the most contemporary in sensibility. This volume contains four of his plays, largely about women, in translations that reveal the complexities of these strong figures--even the towering, murderous Medea can be seen in a sympathetic light. Continues the Penn Greek Drama Series. Average Rating:
 Rating: - More Amazonian bungling!Yet again the folks at Amazon have bungled matters. The other "review" of this book is in fact a review of (or a puff for) the Penn series of translations of Greek tragedy, not of Euripides' "Selected Fragmentary Plays," a scholarly edition offering Greek texts, English translations, and detailed notes on several of Euripides' fragmentary plays. It should also noted that the book in question is the recently published---and long-awaited---second volume of a work whose first volume appeared in 1995. ... Read More Rating: - a return to classicsI went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as Medea--it settled an argument too on how it 'originally' ended. 
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