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Euripides medea translation5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor should Helen, which well demonstrates one of the directions in which Euripides took the genre in his later years. Certainly Hippolytus and Electra need no apology for inclusion in such a list. It is as prospective classroom texts that I shall evaluate their success, paying particular attention to the treatments of Hippolytus, Electra, and Helen, plays found in both volumes which are likely candidates as classroom introductions to the playwright. Both these volumes have aspirations to become university textbooks (a paperback edition of Morwood has just appeared in the Oxford World’s Classics series), and the Slavitt/Bovie volume also claims to expect staged performance (p. The tragic poet has spoken differently to each generation, and will continue to do so. ![]() There will always be a market for new translations of Euripides. ![]()
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