Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba Hardcover by Euripides

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1995-02-21)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 528 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674995338
• Item Weight: 385.56 grams
• Dimensions: 16.79 x 11.35 x 2.84 cm

Four plays by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.

One of antiquity’s greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays is in six volumes.

Volume II contains Children of Heracles, about Athens’ protection of the dead hero’s children; Hippolytus, which tells of the punishment Aphrodite inflicts on a man who refuses to worship her; Andromache and Hecuba, the tragic stories of two noble Trojan women after their city’s fall.

About the Author

David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.