Euripides, 1 by David R Slavitt

Euripides, 1 by David R Slavitt

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. This volume includes translations by Eleanor Wilner with InÉs Azar (Medea), Marilyn Nelson (Hecuba), Donald Junkins (Andromache), and Daniel Mark Epstein (The Bacchae).

"Here Euripides stands, in vigorous English versions that fully do him justiceThe most modern of the Greek tragedians has found a compelling modern form."—Robert Fagles

"A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible.' . . . For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces."—Boston Book Review

"[Marilyn] Nelson, like her colleagues, avoids anything jarringly contemporary or self-consciously colloquial. Directness, vivid imagery, and rhetorical music prevail in different cadences."—San Francisco Chronicle

"A superb translation of 'Medea' by Eleanor Wilner . . . an 'Andromache' that, in [Donald] Junkins's translation, manages to be both lovely and dignified; a 'Bacchae' by Daniel Mark Epstein that . . . is intelligent, eminently playable, and prefaced by a straightforward and useful introduction."—New York Times

"Don't look for the wild and woolly—these were put together by wordsmiths. . . . But they are a far cry from some of the stodgier translations."—Washington Post

"The 12-volume set will offer readers new verse translations of the complete surviving tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the surviving comedies of Aristophanes and Menander. The complete line of Greek theater classics has not been offered to readers since 1938."—Publishers Weekly

About the Translators: Fred Beake was born in Cheshire in 1948, grew up in the rural West Riding, and has lived in Bath since 1972. He is the author of several books of original poetry and translations, including The Whiteness of Her Becoming, The Fisher Queen, and Places and Elegies. In addition to his work as a poet, he has written critical works on Shelley and H.D. and has published numerous articles and reviews in Acumen, the Green Book, and the New Statesman. His translations include works by Horace, Catullus, and Alcuin. Since 1990 he has served as the main poetry reviewer for Stand and is currently coeditor of the magazine Poet's Voice. Palmer Bovie was educated at the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. degree in classics from Columbia University and taught at Columbia, Princeton, Indiana University, the American Academy in Rome, and Rutgers University, where he is Emeritus Professor of Classics. He has published many translations from classical literature, including Virgil's Georgics, orations of Cicero, satires and epistles of Horace, epigrams of Martial, and the De rerum natura of Lucretius. With David R. Slavitt he coedited the Complete Roman Drama in Translation series. Jack Flavin writes and translates poetry for numerous academic journals, including Classical Outlook, Modern Age, Cimmaron Review, and Apalachia Quarterly. He has coedited Poulty: A Magazine of Voice, serving as principal editor for eleven years. A veteran of World War II, he went on to graduate from the University of Maryland, and later received his Master of Foreign Studies from the University of Zurich and his M.S. in Library Science from Drexel Tech. David R. Slavitt was educated at Andover and Yale and has published more than sixty books: original poetry (recently Epic and Epigram), translations (recently Broken Columns, of Statius and Claudian, University of Pennsylvania Press), novels (recently The Cliff), critical works (recently Virgil), and short stories. He worked for seven years as a journalist at Newsweek and continues to do freelance reporting and reviewing. With Palmer Bovie he coedited the Complete Roman Drama in Translation series.

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ISBN 13	9780812216264
ISBN 10	0812216261
Title	Euripides, 1
Author	David R Slavitt
Series	Penn Greek Drama Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press
Year published	1997-11-01
Number of pages	320
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