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Medea and Other Plays
by John Davie, Euripides, Richard Rutherford
Medea was the first Greek play I ever read when I was twelve or thirteen, and it gave me nightmares for months, but I was also mesmerized by it; the terrible things that happened and how real the emotions it stirred in me felt. Morwood's translation is very good (maybe my favorite from the ones I've read in English so far?) and revisiting this play is always exciting for me.
I also really liked Helen, which I hadn't read before, although I did know through Herodotus about the "real" location of Helen during the trojan war. Electra and Hippolytus are great tragedies too and both made me think a lot of Ariadne and Electra by Jennifer Saint, makes sense I loved those books so much, I can see how heavily inspired by Euripides they are.
I also really liked Helen, which I hadn't read before, although I did know through Herodotus about the "real" location of Helen during the trojan war. Electra and Hippolytus are great tragedies too and both made me think a lot of Ariadne and Electra by Jennifer Saint, makes sense I loved those books so much, I can see how heavily inspired by Euripides they are.