Posted on 05/08/06
Euripides: He unsettles us still
Grief Lessons:Four Plays by EuripidesTranslated by Anne CarsonNew York Review Books,312 pages, $26.95Among classical drama's Big Three -- Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides -- Euripides scores highest in the University of Toronto's on-line catalogue. Googling him yields 3,820,000 hits. Why? Certainly not because his plays are "easier," or more lyrical or profound than those of the others. Euripides (c. 484-406 BC) interests us because his world and his way of presenting it so closely resemble the way we see ours.
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