Euripides Plays Six Hippolytos, Supplicants, Rhesos

A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has constantly challenged and intrigued audiences, from Athens of the fifth century BC to the present. The three plays in this volume air timeless questions of personal morality and allegiance and demonstrate the playwright's versatility. Hippolytos deals with sexual passion and abstinence, love between fathers and sons, and despair. Suppliants is the last episode in the saga of the house of Oedipus. Rhesos is the only surviving Greek play set during the Trojan War. The translations by Frederic Raphael, Kenneth McLeish, and J. Michael Walton are accurate but lively, intended for both performer and student.Walton, J. Michael is the author of 'Euripides Plays Six Hippolytos, Supplicants, Rhesos', published 1997 under ISBN 9780413716507 and ISBN 0413716503.