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These lively, accurate translations will allow readers and theater audiences to appreciate the power of Euripidean tragedy. Blessington s language is spare and his translation fairly literal, allowing direct sometimes punchy delivery while retaining poetic expressions from the Greek. Francis Dunn, author of Tragedy s End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama

These lively, accurate translations will allow readers and theater audiences to appreciate the power of Euripidean tragedy. Blessington's language is spare and his translation fairly literal, allowing direct--sometimes punchy--delivery while retaining poetic expressions from the Greek. --Francis Dunn, author of Tragedy's End

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Francis Blessington is a professor of English at Northeastern University in Boston. He is the author of several books of poetry and scholarship and has published translations of Euripides’ The Bacchae and Aristophanes’ The Frogs. Euripides (480–406 BC) was the author of at least ninety tragedies in classical Athens. He was innovative in his portrayal of the inner lives of characters and in his compassionate representations of victims of society, including women.

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