Bacchae And Other Plays; Author: Euripides; Editor: Morwood, James H.; Paperback

Author: Euripides; Editor: Morwood, James H.
Oxford World's Classics (Paperback); Paperback
280 pages
Published: April 2000
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019283875X

The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works: Bacchae, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, lphigenia at Aulis, and Rhesus, believed to be possibly the work of another playwright. Edith Hall writes the Introduction.Contains four plays newly translated: 'Iphigenia among the Taurians', 'Bacchae', 'Iphigenia at Aulis' and 'Rhesus'. This text contains four of Euripides' works: Iphigenia among the Taurians, a tale of escape and civilization; Bacchae, deals with the consequences of resistance to Dionysus; Iphigenia at Aulis, centres on the dysfunctional family; and Rhesus, deals with an event in the Trojan War.