Euripides
Four Plays
Translated by Gilbert Murray, 1902–1906
What this is
The tragedian later antiquity staged and read more than any other. Four of his plays: Medea, who kills her children to punish their father (431 BC); the Trojan Women, staged the spring after Athens destroyed Melos (415); Electra; and the Bacchae, produced after his death.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.