Fiction
Iphigeneia at Aulis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
An Oxford University Press paperback of Euripides' late play, in the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, with a version by W. S. Merwin and an introduction by George E. Dimock. The translation is by a poet rather than a classicist, which means the lines move quickly even when the plot does not. Oxford packaged it in the standard academic paperback format, with notes, a glossary, and the cream paper that university presses favor. The play is about a father preparing to sacrifice his daughter for a fleet's favorable wind, and it does not pretend the decision is simple.Ideal reader: the reader who wants Greek tragedy in English that sounds like verse rather than homework, or the parent who has never been asked to give up quite so much.
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