by Euripides
edited and translated by David Kovacs
Harvard University Press, 2002
Cloth: 978-0-674-99600-7
Library of Congress Classification PA3975.A2 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 882.01

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Three plays by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays is in six volumes.

Helen, in Volume V, employs an alternative history in which a virtuous and faithful Helen was falsely blamed for the actions of her divinely created double in Troy. Here too are Phoenician Women, the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, recasting Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother.