Iphigenia in Tauris and other plays
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Iphigenia in Tauris and other plays
（The Greek tragedy in new translations, . The complete Euripides ; v. 2）
Oxford University Press, 2010
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-393)
Contents of Works
- Electra / translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford
- Iphigenia in Tauris / translated by Richmond Lattimore
- Orestes / translated by John Peck and Frank Nisetich
- Iphigenia at Aulis / translated by W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.
This volume collects Euripides' Electra (translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford), an exciting story of vengeance that counterposes suspense and horror with comic realism; Orestes (John Peck and Frank Nisetich), the tragedy of a young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father; Iphigenia in Tauris (Richmond Lattimore), a delicately written and beautifully contrived Euripidean "romance"; and Iphigeneia at Aulis (W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr.), a
compelling look at the devastating consequence of "man's inhumanity to man." This volume reprints the informative introductions and notes of the original editions, and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.
Table of Contents
- Electra (Janet Lembke, poet and translator
- Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Orestes (John Peck, poet
- Frank Nisetich, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
- Iphigenia in Tauris (the late Richmond Lattimore, poet and translator)
- Iphigeneia at Aulis (W. S. Merwin, poet and translator
- George E. Dimock, Jr., author)
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