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Medea and Other Plays

Medea/ Alcestis/ The Children of Heracles/ Hippolytus

Euripides - Author

John Davie - Translator

Richard Rutherford - Introduction by

Richard Rutherford - Notes by

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ISBN 9780140449297 | 240 pages | 29 Apr 2003 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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Translated by John Davie with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford.

Medea and Other Plays General Introduction
Note on the Text
Chronological Table
Translator's Note

Preface to Alcestis
Alcestis

Preface to Medea
Medea

Preface to The Children of Heraclea
The Children of Heracles

Preface to Hippolytus
Hippolytus

Notes
Bibliography
Glossary of Mythological and Geographical Names

‘One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen’ 
Robert Fagles

‘John Davie’s translations are outstanding … the tone throughout is refreshingly modern yet dignified’ 
William Allan, Classical Review