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Title: The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.

Author: Euripides

Release Date: February 16, 2005 [EBook #15081]

Language: English

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THE
TRAGEDIES
OF
EURIPIDES.

LITERALLY TRANSLATED OR REVISED,
WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,

BY
THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY,
OF CHRIST CHURCH.

VOL. I.

HECUBA, ORESTES, PHOENISSAE, MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, ALCESTIS,
BACCHAE, HERACLIDAE, IPHIGENIA IN AULIDE,
AND IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1892.

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PREFACE.

The translations of the first six plays in the present volume were
published at Oxford some years since, and have been frequently reprinted.
They are now carefully revised according to Dindorf's text, and are
accompanied by a few additional notes adapted to the requirements of the
student.

The translations of the Bacchae, Heraclidae, and the two Iphigenias, are
based upon the same text, with certain exceptions, which are pointed out at
the foot of the page. The annotations on the Iphigenias are almost
exclusively critical, as it is presumed that a student who proceeds to the
reading of these somewhat difficult plays[1], will be sufficiently advanced
in his acquaintance with the Greek drama to dispense with more elementary
information.

T.A. BUCKLEY,
CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD.

[1] The reader will obtain some notion of the difficulties alluded to, and
the best mode of grappling with them, by consulting the recent Cambridge
edition, published with English notes (Iph. in Aulide, 1840, in Tauris,
1846), performances of great critical acumen, attributed to the present
Bishop of Gloucester.

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INTRODUCTION.

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Euripides, son of Mnesarchus, was born in the island of Salamis, on the day
of the celebrated victory (B.