| Author: | Euripides | ISBN: | 9781420904000 |
| Publisher: | Neeland Media LLC | Publication: | December 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Digireads.com Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Euripides |
| ISBN: | 9781420904000 |
| Publisher: | Neeland Media LLC |
| Publication: | December 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Digireads.com Publishing |
| Language: | English |
"The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets.' It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable. And I notice that many judges who display nothing but a fierce satisfaction in sending other plays of that author to the block or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle daughter of Pelias." So begins the introduction to the Alcestis by Euripides. This edition is from the translation of and with a introduction by Gilbert Murray.
"The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets.' It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable. And I notice that many judges who display nothing but a fierce satisfaction in sending other plays of that author to the block or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle daughter of Pelias." So begins the introduction to the Alcestis by Euripides. This edition is from the translation of and with a introduction by Gilbert Murray.
![Cover of the book Dante's Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, Volume II, Purgatory) [Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with an Introduction by William Warren Vernon] by Euripides](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2017/may/300x300/9781420954968-2oRA_300x.jpg)
