Euripides: The Bacchae

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Description

English translation of Euripides' tragedy based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes.

Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Features

English translation with introductory material, notes, glossary and essay by Stephen Esposito.

Market

For courses in Greek drama, ancient drama, Classical civilization, taught in English, in departments of Classics, English, theater, or Great Books programs.

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 Publishing, 1998) and edited Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (translations with commentaries: Focus Publishing, 2003). Steve is also the founding editor of the new Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries, the first volume of which will be his grammatical commentary, with running vocabulary, of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Reviews

Esposito's Bacchae is an excellent brief guide to the difficulties and complexities of this controversial play, and it will be welcomed by students and teachers alike… The translation itself is clear, strong and highly readable.

~Charles Segal, Harvard University