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.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with Four Plays that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Gilbert Murray, 1906. Source: Gutenberg 35451 etc..
The text here is Gilbert Murray’s verse translations, George Allen, 1902–1906, public domain in the United States, from Project Gutenberg ebooks 35451, 35173, 10096 and 14322. Murray’s introductions and notes are not printed; his stage directions are, in brackets.
Murray rhymes where Euripides does not. It is the translation that put these plays back on the English stage, and it is set here line for line as he printed it.
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