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The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 3

Euripides

A Centennial Edition
The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.

For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.

All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.

672 pages | 6 x 9 | © 1992

Ancient Studies

Literature and Literary Criticism: Classical Languages

Table of Contents

General Introduction
Richmond Lattimore

Introduction to Alcestis
Richmond Lattimore

Alcestis
Richmond Lattimore
 
Introduction to The Medea
Rex Warner

The Medea
Rex Warner

Introduction to The Heracleidae
Richmond Lattimore

The Heracleidae
Ralph Gladstone

Introduction to Hippolytus
David Grene

Hippolytus
David Grene

Introduction to Cyclops
William Arrowsmith

Cyclops
William Arrowsmith

Introduction to Heracles
William Arrowsmith

Heracles
William Arrowsmith

Introduction to Iphigenia in Tauris
Richmond Lattimore

Iphigenia in Tauris
Witter Bynner

Helen
Richmond Lattimore

Introduction to Helen
Richmond Lattimore

Introduction to Hecuba
William Arrowsmith

Hecuba
William Arrowsmith

Introduction to Andromache
John Frederick Nims

Andromache
John Frederick Nims

Introduction to The Trojan Women
Richmond Lattimore

The Trojan Women
Richmond Lattimore

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