Baltimore. 1972. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Some

Baltimore. 1972. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Some Markings on The Edges, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0140442596. Translated from the Ancient Greek & With An Introduction by Philip Vellacott. 439 pages. paperback. The cover shows a detail of a fifth-century Athenian oil-flask from Eretria, in the National Museum, Athens. keywords: Penguin Classic Translated Ancient Greece Drama Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-This volume completes the series of Euripides plays translated for the Penguin Classics by Philip Vellacott. It contains, in chronological order, six plays which span the last twenty-four years of Euripides career. from the age of fifty to his death in 407 B.C. : The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Aulis. The plays differ widely in both form and content: all are ironical in tone: their principal theme is war-the ideals which can redeem it, the guilt which it breeds, the values which' if destroys. Expressed in some of Euripides finest poetic and dramatic writing, these plays form a moral and political statement unique in the ancient world and prophetically relevant in our own. inventory #18922.