Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae

I have no basis of judgment. I bought this for niece because she needed help buying her textbooks. Textbooks (and the publish or perish ethos of the modern university) are a scam so I feel like I should give it a low rating in general principles.

This is a modern translation, not at all slangy. The introduction and essays at the end are useful.Medea and Hyppolytus are popular plays. The Bacchae is totally disturbing and is meant to be. Heracles Mad is not so well known, not so popular, and probaly his best extant play.A good read, with much meat for thought.

there are two different translations of this book on this page, the "Four Plays - Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae" version is a different and INFERIOR translation

Be careful purchasing this book from this publisher. The book was required for a classics course I took, however, when I went to read a play from it, I found the translation to be very dated. The writing is difficult to read and very outdated (using words such as dost and o'er, etc.). Turns out, I had purchased the wrong book, and Amazon has mistakenly linked them together. The correct one has a red cover with a circle, this one has a white and blue cover with a picture of rocks. Don't waste your money on nearly unreadable prose, make sure you purchase the right book.

An excellent translation imo, and I really have no words to describe Euripides' greatness. I really should learn Ancient Greek.

Brand new condition!!! Awesome!!

A fine translation of these classics.

Once you have deciphered what the book is saying the stories are really interesting. However, the translation is quite difficult to follow along. I found myself taking 3 times as long to read 20 pages as it did for me to read the Illiad.

A very useful book for any Classics student doing Euripides. There is a very informative Introduction and excellent footnotes - I can highly recommend it.

Very nice