Excerpt from The Tragedies of Euripides, Vol. 2: Hercules Furens; Troades; Ion; Andromache; Suppliants; Helen; Electra; Cyclops; Rhesus The son of Perseus, begot, the father of Hercules Who pos sessed this country of Thebes; where the earth-born crop of sown heroes sprung forth, of whose race Mars preserved a small number, who with children of their children people the city of Cadmus.' Hence (was) sprung Creon, son of Me naceus, the ruler of this land. And Creon becomes the father of this Megan, at whose nuptials' erst the whole Cadmean people shouted in tune with the flute, when the renowned Hercules conducted her into my house. But my son, having left Thebes, where I was settled, and this [my daughter] Megan, and his kindred, he chose to inhabit the Argive walls and Cyclopean city, ' from which I take flight, having slain Electryon. But wishing to alleviate my woes, and to dwell in his own country, he ofl'ers, as a great recompence to Burys theus-for my return, to render the land safe from pests, whether being subdued hythe good of Juno, or under the influence of fate. And through the rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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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 Frederick Willetts. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.