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Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchae

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"Paul Roche...must be ranked among the great translators of the Greek dramas in our century."â Robert W. Corrigan

Here are three of Euripides' finest tragedies offered in vivid, modern translations.

126 pages, Hardcover

First published May 6,2010

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126 pages, Hardcover
Published
January 1, 1974 by W. W. Norton
ISBN
9780393043822
ASIN
0393043827
Language
English

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Skelator
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I enjoyed reading these, I wondered if I'd be able to comprehend them but I believe I did well. The ending on Alcestis seemed abrupt but then I spose there really wasn't much to wrap up. I think it would have been pretty cool to have seen these performances in their day. The plays were Alcestis, Medea and The Bacchae
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tenshikagami
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April 1,2025
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I read the last play, The Bacchae. Pretty good translation but has no elegance to it. But easy to read.

I prefer the translator such as Gilbert Murray's translation, his is more of that of a poet's translation.

But if you would like to read a great classic in an easy, more modern way than I would suggest you read Roche's.
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Oh, the perfidy and hypocrisy of Jason and King Creon!

This is an amazingly good translation.
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Emris
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April 1,2025
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I’ve been wanting to read Alcestis since reading a certain book on the NYT bestseller list that purports to kinda/sorta/maybe tie in with the story of Alcestis, but I had trouble seeing how as they don’t exactly align (plus I had other problems with the NYT book, but that’s a different rabbit hole…)

Here, Admetus comes off half a t*rd (the way he treats his father) and half not (resisting Heracles offer); though he never should have accepted Alcestis to stand in his place.

And I’d understood before now that Alcestis never speaks after Heracles brings her back, but in Euripides telling, she is only unable to speak “until three days have passed and she is purged of her consecration to the powers below” as Heracles informs us.

Medea: see other editions

The Bacchae: so Zeus with Semele, Dionysus sewn into his thigh; his birthright not believed; his royal house of Cadmus not respecting him, so revenge. Agàve, his mother, and her sisters in a frenzy do not recognize Pentheus, kill him and tear him apart.
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