Written for the Home University Library, Murray’s study sifts the ancient sources for Euripides’ life, sets him against the intellectual ferment and wars of fifth-century Athens, and examines his plays, his treatment of myth and women, his religious doubts and his dramatic technique, from Medea and Hippolytus to The Trojan Women and The Bacchae.
A lucid introduction by the scholar whose translations brought Euripides to the Edwardian stage. Download the free EPUB.