Violent love, brutal murder, pride, revenge, temptation and virtue—these are the themes of Euripides’ great plays, Medea, Hippolytus and Helen, now newly translated for the modern reader by Rex Warner, noted classical scholar. In his immortal dramas, Euripides has created magnificent character studies which probe deep into the hearts, minds and our of tormented men and women.
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“Euripides is the most tragic of the poets.” —Aristotle
About the Author
Euripides was an Athenian born in 484 BC. A member of a family of considerable rank, he disliked performing the public duties expected of him, preferring a life of introspection. He was not a popular figure, and at some point (and for a reason unknown) he went into voluntary exile at the court of Archelaus, King of Macedon. He died c.407 BC and is thought to have written around ninety-two plays, of which seventeen survive.
Rex Warner’s translations of Greek literature have been praised for their vigor, imagination and sound scholarship. Born in England, he attended Oxford University. He has taught in England, Egypt, and Greece; written novels and a biography of Julie Caesar; translated Euripides, Xenophon, Aeschylus, and Ovid. Mr. Warner is also the author of The Geek Philosophers, a Mentor Book.
