Books by Euripides

Alcestis

by Euripides

(15 reviews)

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived... See More

The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Translation with a Critical Essay

by Euripides

(3 reviews)

This new translation of The Bacchae -- that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse -- is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406... See More

Cyclops (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

by Euripides

(6 reviews)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series... See More

The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics)

by Sophocles

(511 reviews)

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world's most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone... See More

Hecuba: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics Book 0)

by Euripides

(28 reviews)

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Hecuba, deposed queen of Troy, has seen her husband humiliated, her son murdered and her daughter sacrificed. Her grief turns to anger and she enacts a bloody... See More

Ten Plays

by Euripides

(1 review)

Of Euripides' roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as one of the greatest innovators of Greek drama. Collected here are ten of Euripides'... See More

The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations Book 5)

by Euripides

(75 reviews)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series... See More

Iphigenia in Tauris

by Euripides

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived... See More

Hecuba (Plays by Euripides)

by Euripides

(28 reviews)

In the play's unconventional opening, the ghost of Polydorus tells how when the war threatened Troy, he was sent to King Polymestor of Thrace for safekeeping, with gifts of gold and jewelry. But when Troy lost the war... See More

Iphigenia In Aulis The Age Of Bronze Edition

by Euripides

(17 reviews)

High King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma of his life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the Trojan War? A father's secret plot clashes with a girl's romantic dreams in this chilling classic... See More

Ten Plays by Euripides

by Euripides

(72 reviews)

The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks... See More

The Women of Troy (Modern Plays)

by Euripides

(50 reviews)

An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them... See More

Euripides: Ten Plays

by Paul Roche

(111 reviews)

A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the... See More

Medea (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

by Euripides

(58 reviews)

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies... See More

Medea (Student Editions)

by Euripides

(2 reviews)

A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary. The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also the most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handles the... See More

The Bacchae

by Euripides

(21 reviews)

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived... See More

Rhesus (Plays by Euripides)

by Euripides

(1 review)

In the middle of the night Trojan guards on the lookout for suspicious enemy activity sight bright fires in the Greek camp. They promptly inform Hector, who almost issues a general call to arms before Aeneas makes him see... See More

Euripides Plays: 4: Elektra; Orestes and Iphigeneia in Tauris (Classical Dramatists)

by Euripides

(5 reviews)

"Euripides, the Athenian playwright who dared to question the whims of wanton gods, has always been the most intriguing of the Greek tragedians. Now, with translations aimed at the stage rather than the page, his restless... See More

The Iphigenia Plays: New Verse Translations (Northwestern World Classics)

by Euripides

(1 review)

At the heart of Iphigenia's enduring story are an ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a new generation of... See More

Medea and Other Plays

by Euripides

(289 reviews)

Medea/Hecabe/Electra/Heracles Four devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides... See More

Age Of Bronze (Color) Vol. 3: Betrayal, Part 1

by Euripides

(3 reviews)

IN COLOR for the first time! High King Agamemnon sails with his army to conquer Troy, laying waste along his path. Behind Troy's city walls, squabbling intensifies among the Trojan leaders. On the brink of war, both sides... See More

Bakkhai: Euripides (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

by Euripides

(11 reviews)

Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is... See More

Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

by Euripides

(123 reviews)

Euripides I contains the plays "Alcestis," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea," translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles," translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus," translated by David Grene. Sixty... See More

Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

by Euripides

(52 reviews)

Euripides II contains the plays "Andromache," translated by Deborah Roberts; "Hecuba," translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Suppliant Women," translated by Frank William Jones; and "Electra," translated by Emily Townsend... See More

Greek Tragedy (Penguin Classics)

by Euripides

(69 reviews)

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets... See More

Hippolytus

by Euripides

Furious that Prince Hippolytus will not worship her, Aphrodite, goddess of love, seeks revenge. Infecting Hippolytus' stepmother, Phaedra, with an overpowering desire for him, Aphrodite's retribution will sweep both prince... See More

Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

by Euripides

(55 reviews)

Euripides III contains the plays "Heracles," translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Trojan Women," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Iphigenia among the Taurians," translated by Anne Carson; and "Ion," translated by Ronald... See More

Three Plays

by Euripides

(31 reviews)

One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484-406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity, and in their use of the gods as symbols of human... See More

Medea

by Euripides

(104 reviews)

'Medea' is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea, and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world... See More

The Cyclops (Plays by Euripides)

by Euripides

(4 reviews)

When Odysseus arrives he meets Silenus and offers to trade wine for food. Being a servant of Dionysus, Silenus cannot resist obtaining the wine despite the fact that the food is not his to trade. The Cyclops soon arrives and... See More