Hippolytus

No play of Euripides is more admired than Hippolytus. The tale of a married woman stirred to passion for a younger man was traditional, but Euripides modified this story and blended it with one of divine vengeance to create a masterpiece of tension, pathos, and dramatic power. In this play, Phaedra fights nobly but unsuccessfully against her desire for her stepson Hippolytus, while the young man risks his life to keep her passion secret. Both of them, constrained by the overwhelming force of divine power and human ignorance, choose to die in order to maintain their virtue and their good names.

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Euripides
Translated with Notes, Introduction, and Essay by Michael R. Halleran

2001 - 116 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: Focus Classical Library

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No play of Euripides is more admired than Hippolytus. The tale of a married woman stirred to passion for a younger man was traditional, but Euripides modified this story and blended it with one of divine vengeance to create a masterpiece of tension, pathos, and dramatic power. In this play, Phaedra fights nobly but unsuccessfully against her desire for her stepson Hippolytus, while the young man risks his life to keep her passion secret. Both of them, constrained by the overwhelming force of divine power and human ignorance, choose to die in order to maintain their virtue and their good names.

As with all Focus Classical Library titles, this edition of Hippolytus is designed with the student of Ancient Drama in mind, with a modern translation close to the original, informed by the latest scholarship, with an extensive introduction, interpretive essay, and footnotes, all to the purpose of allowing the student to understand Greek drama, Greek mythology, and the context of Greek culture. Preface, introduction, play in English, interpretative essay, suggestions for further readings.


About the Author:

Michael Halleran is currently the Divisional Dean for Arts & Humanities at University of Washington, where he is also a Professor of Classics.