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A review by vaporization
Ten Plays by Euripides by Euripides
4.0
This translation is very easy to read. Roche uses some modernish slang that I think captures some of the comedic parts in the plays well.
ALCESTIS: Admetus's love for his wife is sweet, but Pheres is so real for that rant. Heracles is very...convenient. Idk why but Heracles gives big himbo energy.
HIPPOLYTUS: Hippolytus: raging misogynist, diehard virgin, honorable bastard. He got one of the worst endings just for existing. Sure he spurns love or whatever but like. It's not really his fault. He's basically just asexual. Aphrodite is honestly the most evil goddess. She's like, "Well why should I care that Hippolytus likes Artemis more than me? I'm still gonna punish him though." And then he dies horribly.
ION: Cute! Athena shows up out of nowhere...conveniently. Hermes does the intro and then doesn't show up again. Apollo is just looming in the background the whole time. Ion is as slow as Oedipus in figuring things out despite the obvious and eerily "coincidental" story he hears.
ELECTRA: I think I love Orestes. Also this ends bitterly but Iphigenia Among the Taurians leaves us with a happier ending for these characters.
IPHIGENIA AT AULIS: It's great but the deus ex machina at the end is also particularly noticeable in this one. I guess Euripides didn't write that ending.
IPHIGENIA AMONG THE TAURIANS: I love this one. It's cute. Everyone in here is sweet and everything works out in the end. Iphigenia and Orestes and Pylades are all so lovable.
MEDEA: Medea is terribly brutal. Jason deserved it. The kids did not. And Creon finally meets his end!! I feel like the only winner in this play is Aegeus. I was waiting for something bad to happen to him lol, for him to mess up the prophecy.
THE BACCHAE: Shockingly grisly, though this is about Dionysus, after all.
THE TROJAN WOMEN: Devastating portrayal of the aftermath of war and a complex discussion of the cause of it that seems to indicate a change from Euripides' opinions expressed in the earlier Helen.
THE CYCLOPS: Funny. I wonder what "gang-bang fuck" is in Ancient Greek.
ALCESTIS: Admetus's love for his wife is sweet, but Pheres is so real for that rant. Heracles is very...convenient. Idk why but Heracles gives big himbo energy.
HIPPOLYTUS: Hippolytus: raging misogynist, diehard virgin, honorable bastard. He got one of the worst endings just for existing. Sure he spurns love or whatever but like. It's not really his fault. He's basically just asexual. Aphrodite is honestly the most evil goddess. She's like, "Well why should I care that Hippolytus likes Artemis more than me? I'm still gonna punish him though." And then he dies horribly.
ION: Cute! Athena shows up out of nowhere...conveniently. Hermes does the intro and then doesn't show up again. Apollo is just looming in the background the whole time. Ion is as slow as Oedipus in figuring things out despite the obvious and eerily "coincidental" story he hears.
ELECTRA: I think I love Orestes. Also this ends bitterly but Iphigenia Among the Taurians leaves us with a happier ending for these characters.
IPHIGENIA AT AULIS: It's great but the deus ex machina at the end is also particularly noticeable in this one. I guess Euripides didn't write that ending.
IPHIGENIA AMONG THE TAURIANS: I love this one. It's cute. Everyone in here is sweet and everything works out in the end. Iphigenia and Orestes and Pylades are all so lovable.
MEDEA: Medea is terribly brutal. Jason deserved it. The kids did not. And Creon finally meets his end!! I feel like the only winner in this play is Aegeus. I was waiting for something bad to happen to him lol, for him to mess up the prophecy.
THE BACCHAE: Shockingly grisly, though this is about Dionysus, after all.
THE TROJAN WOMEN: Devastating portrayal of the aftermath of war and a complex discussion of the cause of it that seems to indicate a change from Euripides' opinions expressed in the earlier Helen.
THE CYCLOPS: Funny. I wonder what "gang-bang fuck" is in Ancient Greek.