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Helen / Phoenician Women / Orestes (Loeb Classical Library: Euripides, Vol. 5) Hardcover – June 15, 2002

by Euripides (Author), David Kovacs (Editor)
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Three plays by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays is in six volumes.

Helen, in Volume V, employs an alternative history in which a virtuous and faithful Helen was falsely blamed for the actions of her divinely created double in Troy. Here too are Phoenician Women, the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, recasting Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother.

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“Kovacs’s translation is a tour de force… In general, the notes accompanying the translation, explaining such things as geographical and mythological names, are judiciously chosen, concise, and crystal clear… I have nothing but praise for [Kovacs’s] scholarship, and the lucidity of his writing, both as translator and commentator. [This volume] should be [the] standard translation for many years to come.”―John Davidson, Scholia Reviews

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David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press (June 15, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674996003
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674996007
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1.25 x 6.37 inches
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Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpᵻdiːz/ or /jɔːˈrɪpᵻdiːz/; Greek: Εὐριπίδης; Ancient Greek: [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]) (c. 480 – 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets",[nb 1] focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of...that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

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Kovacs has done an excellent job updating the Loeb Euripides. His translations are careful and close to Greek, yet also appreciable English prose. Each play has also been presented with an excellent contextual summary of the historical, cultural and intellectual piecemeal present in each work. I have no complaints, and I little doubt that his entire update features the same care and caution that I find present in this volume.
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Those who know the Loeb classical library will be aware of the quality and content of these books. The modern reprinting methods, and more accurate translations in these newer prints are evident. Excellent book.
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