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Helen. Phoenician Women. Orestes

Loeb Classical Library

By (author) Euripides
Edited and translated by David Kovacs
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, United States
Imprint: LOEB
Published: 15th Jun 2002
Dimensions: w 109mm h 178mm d 33mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN-10: 0674996003
ISBN-13: 9780674996007
Barcode No: 9780674996007
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Synopsis
Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. In this fifth volume of the new Loeb Classical Library Euripides, David Kovacs presents a freshly edited Greek text and a faithful and deftly worded translation of three plays. For his Helen the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous Helen never went to Troy but spent the war years in Egypt, falsely blamed for the adulterous behavior of her divinely created double in Troy. This volume also includes Phoenician Women, Euripides' treatment of the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, a novel retelling of Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother, Clytaemestra. Each play is annotated and prefaced by a helpful introduction.

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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 *