Series Copy Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedies in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the editorship of Herbert Golder and the late William Arrowsmith, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a ...
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Series Copy Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedies in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the editorship of Herbert Golder and the late William Arrowsmith, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. One of Euripides' late plays, Ion is a complex enactment of the changing relations between the human and divine orders and the way in which our understanding of the gods is mediated and re-visioned by myths. The story begins years before the play begins, with the rape of the mortal Kreousa, queen of Athens, by Apollo. After Kreousa secretly abandons Apollo's newly born child, Apollo has the child brought to his temple at Delphi to be reared by the priestess as ward of the shrine. Many years later the remarried and childless Kreousa goes to Delphi to seek prophecy about children with her husband Xouthos. Apollo, speaking through the oracle, bestows the temple ward, Ion, on Xouthos, enraging Kreousa. After mother and son both try to kill each other, the priestess reveals the birth tokens that permit Kreousa to recognize and embrace the child she thought was dead. In Ion , disturbing riptides of thought and feeling run just below the often shimmering surfaces of Euripidean melodrama. Although the play contains some of Euripides' most beautiful lyrical writing, it quivers throughout with near disasters, poorly informed actions, and misdirected intentions that almost result in catastrophe.
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Add this copy of Ion to cart. $5.53, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1970 by Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice; Ha.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN: 0135060222.
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Add this copy of Ion: a Translation With Commentary to cart. $15.16, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Prentice Hall, Inc.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Ion By Euripides to cart. $16.89, very good condition, Sold by Roy Clarke/gfoylebooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Danvers, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Prentice-Hall.
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Very Good. Light cover wear, very good to near fine condition---Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall (1970), 1st printing, large format trade paperback, 157 pages, 5 1/4 x 8 SERIES-Greek Drama Series NOTES-A translation and commentary by Anne Pippen Burnett.
