The Complete Euripides, Volume IV: The Bacchae and Other Plays by Alan Shapiro, Euripides, Peter H. Burian

The Complete Euripides, Volume IV: The Bacchae and Other Plays

Alan Shapiro, Euripides, Peter H. Burian

364 pages first pub -414 (editions)

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Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh...

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