The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.

by Euripides

This first volume of The Tragedies of Euripides in English prose, by the Oxford classicist Theodore Alois Buckley, was intended for students and general readers and includes his introduction, arguments and notes. It contains Hecuba, Orestes, The Phoenician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus and Alcestis, revised according to Dindorf's text, together with the Bacchae, the Heraclidae, Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris. These are some of the most searching plays of the Greek stage: Medea's revenge on Jason, Phaedra's fatal passion for her stepson, Alcestis dying in her husband's place, Agave destroyed by Dionysus. Literal and faithful, Buckley's versions let readers follow the Greek closely. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first act is free.