Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 5)
A University of Chicago Press paperback volume from the Grene and Lattimore Complete Greek Tragedies, the mid-century translation series that English-speaking students have been buying used for generations. This volume contains three late Euripides plays: Electra, The Phoenician Women, and The Bacchae. The translations are readable, the notes are sparse, and the introductions do their job without pretending the plays are easy. The Chicago binding is the standard academic paperback, the cover is the familiar cream-and-red design, and the paper has the slight tooth of a book meant to be underlined.Ideal reader: the student who needs one reliable translation instead of six, or the reader who wants to read Euripides without the apparatus of a critical edition.
