Bacchae : Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus

Resource Information

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Label

Bacchae : Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus

Title remainder

Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus

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

• Dionysus, (Greek deity) -- Drama
• Iphigenia (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Iphigenia, (Mythological character) -- Drama
• Pentheus (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Pentheus, King of Thebes (Mythological character) -- Drama
• Rhesus (Legendary character) -- Drama
• Rhesus, King of Thrace (Legendary character) -- Drama
• Trojan War -- Drama
• Bacchantes -- Drama
• Euripides -- Translations into English

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, 495

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

Series statement

Loeb Classical Library

Series volume

495

Summary expansion

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. This volume completes the new six-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays. In Bacchae, a masterpiece of tragic drama, Euripides tells the story of king Pentheus's resistance to the worship of Dionysus and his horrific punishment. Iphigenia at Aulis recounts the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter to Artemis, the price exacted by the goddess for favorable sailing winds. Rhesus (probably not by Euripides) dramatizes a pivotal incident in the Trojan War. David Kovacs presents a faithful and skillfully worded translation of the three plays, facing a freshly edited Greek text

Target audience

general