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Overview
Published in the new Methuen Classical
Dramatists series. The three plays
in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy.
Alkestis is a moving "romance" with death; it has parallels to
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Helen, an alternative version of the
tragic portrayal of the Trojan War, shows Helen as an innocent victim of
her own beauty,
hidden in Egypt by the gods while her image has been abducted by Paris.
In Ion, a father who thought he was childless discovers his son, and a
son who thought he was motherless finds his mother.
Authors
Euripides
Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose full plays have survived. Of the more than 90 plays attributed to Euripides, 18 are extant in full: Alcestis, Medea, ...
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