Bibliotheca Aeterna · No. 25
Euripides
Nineteen Plays, with Greek Text
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The eighteen surviving tragedies, the satyr play Cyclops, and Rhesus (of disputed authorship): nineteen plays in all, by far the largest surviving tragic corpus, Greek text with Edward P. Coleridge's translation (George Bell & Sons, 1891) in parallel. The youngest and most contested of the three tragedians, 'the most tragic of the poets' in Aristotle's judgment: the expository prologue, the deus ex machina, the critique of the gods, only four victories in his lifetime and immense posthumous fame. A general Introduction in two essays, a Notice for each play (in chronological order, from Alcestis in 438 to the posthumous Bacchae), and line-anchored Notes accompany the text.
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