Odysseus at Troy

Odysseus at Troy is centered on the mythological Greek warrior, Odysseus, hero of the Trojan War. This book contains three plays: Sophocles' Ajax, Euripides' Hecuba, and Euripides' Trojan Women. The plays are complete, with notes and introductions for each. An additional introduction to the volume gives background on this popular theme, and on Ajax, one of the most written-about hero in Greek literature. 

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Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women

Edited by Stephen Esposito

2010 - 304 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: Focus Classical Library

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Odysseus at Troy is centered on the mythological Greek warrior, Odysseus, hero of the Trojan War. This book contains three plays:

  • Sophocles' Ajax (Translated with notes by Stephen Esposito) - In Ajax, which may well be the earliest of his seven surviving plays, Odysseus makes his first appearance in the surviving corpus of thirty-two Athenian tragedies.
  • Euripides' Hecuba (Translated with notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask) - The drama focuses on the status of women, those who are out of power and at the margins of society, by enacting the sufferings of Hecuba.
  • Euripides' Trojan Women (Translated with notes by Diskin Clay) - The Trojan Women is a play on the consequences of war and the fate of those defeated in war and their victors.

The plays are complete, with notes and introductions for each. An additional introduction to the volume gives background on this popular theme, and on Ajax, one of the most written-about hero in Greek literature. 


About the Author:

Stephen Esposito is an Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University where, in 2009/10, he won Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Teaching Excellence. He has previously published Euripides’ Bacchae (translation and commentary: Focus, 1998) and edited Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (translations with commentaries: Focus, 2003).