Description: This stand alone edition of Euripides s MEDEA is an offprint from Euripides I in The Complete Greek Tragedies, 3rd Edition. The play has been freshly translated by the distinguished British dramaturge and classicist Oliver Taplin."
Brief description: Euripides (c. 480 - 406 BCE) wrote some ninety plays, nineteen of which have survived.
Review Quotes: "Lively. . . . Tragedy's (and comedy's) alternation of speech and song provide the . . . fundamental rhythmic dynamic, and a good translator will use different registers to capture this alternation. Here, Taplin is very successful, and many passages in the odes convey both the intensity of the lyric mode and the contrast with the spoken rhythm that precedes and follows."-- "Bryn Mawr Classical Review"