Cyclops : Alcestis ; Medea

Resource Information

The work Cyclops : Alcestis ; Medea represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Cyclops : Alcestis ; Medea

Title remainder

Alcestis ; Medea

Statement of responsibility

Euripides ; edited and translated by David Kovacs

Creator

• Euripides

Contributor

• Kovacs, David
• Euripides

Author

• Euripides

Editor

• Kovacs, David

Translator

• Kovacs, David

Subject

• Alcestis, Queen, consort of Admetus, King of Pherae -- Drama
• Euripides -- Translations into English
• Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Translations into English
• Medea (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) -- Drama
• Alcestis (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Cyclopes (Greek mythology) -- Drama

Genre

• Translations into English
• Drama

Language

• eng
• grc
• grc
• eng

Summary

Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library)
• Loeb Classical Library, 12

Cataloging source

MaCbHUP

Language note

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages

LC call number

PA3612

LC item number

.E975 2014

Literary form

dramas

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Loeb Classical Library

Series volume

12

Summary expansion

Euripides of Athens (ca. 485-406 BCE), famous in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations, wrote nearly ninety plays. Of these, eighteen (plus a play of unknown authorship mistakenly included with his works) have come down to us from antiquity. In this first volume of a new Loeb edition of Euripides David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text of three plays and an accurate and graceful translation with explanatory notes. Alcestis is the story of a woman who agrees, in order to save her husband's life, to die in his place. Medea is a tragedy of revenge in which Medea kills her own children, as well as their father's new wife, to punish him for his desertion. The volume begins with Cyclops, a satyr play--the only complete example of this genre to survive. Each play is preceded by an introduction. In a general introduction Kovacs demonstrates that the biographical tradition about Euripides--parts of which view him as a subverter of morality, religion, and art--cannot be relied on. He argues that this tradition has often furnished the unacknowledged starting point for interpretation, and that the way is now clear for an unprejudiced consideration of the plays themselves

Target audience

general