GRIEF LESSONS - FOUR PLAYS BY EURIPIDES

Four of those tragedies are presented here in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family, Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektors widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors, Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love, and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with...[Read more]