4 Plays: Cyclops / Helen / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris
by Euripides
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My only beef with this volume was Bynner's Iphigenia in Tauris, which has been adapted mainly with the idea of preformance in mind. I would prefer a closer translation.
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Euripides was born in Attica, Greece probably in 480 B.C. He was the youngest of the three principal fifth-century tragic poets. In his youth he cultivated gymnastic pursuits and studied philosophy and rhetoric. Soon after he received recognition for a play that he had written, Euripides left Athens for the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia. show more Fragments of about fifty-five plays survive. Among his best-known plays are Alcestis, Medea and Philoctetes, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Trojan Women, and Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia. He died in Athens in 406 B.C. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Complete Greek Tragedies-Chicago 1960 (set v. 4, Euripides v.2)
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- 4 Plays: Cyclops / Helen / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris
- Original publication date
- 1956; 438 BCE
- People/Characters
- Apollo; Death; Alcestis; Admetus; Aumetus; Eumelus (show all 8); Hercules; Pheres
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- Pherae, Thessaly, Greece
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