Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterization and their unorthodox dramatic style. This volume, with an introduction by J. Michael Walton, contains three of his finest tragedies: Medea, the abandoned wife, who murders her own children; The Phoenician Women, a further twist in the story of Oedipus and Jocasta; and Bacchae, a macabre and complex play about the power of Dionysos and unreason. This edition, with translations by J. Michael Walton and David Thompson, includes a new translation of Medea.
