EURIPIDES:IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, RHESUS, HECUBA, THE DAUGHTRUS OF TROY, HELEN.

EURIPIDES:IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, RHESUS, HECUBA,  THE DAUGHTRUS OF TROY, HELEN.

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Τραγική Ποίηση / Tragedy: α. όλα β. έργα γ. μελέτες / άρθρα δ. ξενόγλωσσα a. all b. original text c. studies δ. in english

language: original (anc. Greek / English)

THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
EDITED BYT. E. PAGE, LITT.D.
E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. W. H. D. ROUSE, litt.d.
EURIPIDES

EURIPIDES
WITH Ai/eNGLISH TRANSLATION BY
ARTHUR S. WAY, D.LIT
IN FOUR VOLUMES

IPHIQENEIA AT AULIS
RHESUS HECUBA
THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY
HELEN
LONDON : WILLIAM HEINEMANN
NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
MCUXXX

CONTENTS

IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS 1
RHESUS 153
HECUBA 243
THE DAUGHTRUS OF TROY  351
HELEN 461

INTRODUCTION
The life of Euripides coincides with the most strenuous
and most triumphant period of Athenian history,
strenuous and triumphant not only in action, but in
thought, a period of daring enterprise, alike in
material conquest and development, and in art,
poetry, and philosophic speculation. He was born in
480 B.C., the year of Thermopylae and Salamis.
Athens was at the height of her glory and power,
and was year by year becoming more and more the
City Beautiful, when his genius was in its first flush
of creation. He had been writing for more than
forty years before the tragedy of the Sicilian
Expedition was enacted ; and, felix opportunitate
mortis, he was spared the knowledge of the shameful
sequel of Arginusae, the miserable disaster of
Aegospotami, the last lingering agony of famished
Athens. He died more than a year before these
calamities befell.