Euripides

— Cyclops — Alcestis — Medea— Heraclidae — Hippolytus — Andromache — Hecuba — Suppliant Women — Electra — Heracles — Trojan Women — Iphigenia in Tauris — Ion — Helen — Phoenissae — Orestes — Bacchae — Iphigenia at Aulis — Rhesus — Fragments —

General Resources

English Translations

Complete Works

  • C. Mueller, 4 vols. (Hanover, NH, 2005) [WorldCat]
  • Oxford (GTNT): Complete Euripides, 5 vols. (2009-11), collecting translations previously published separately in the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series — vol. 1: Trojan Women and Other Plays [Andromache (S. Stewart / W. D. Smith), Hecuba (J. Lembke / K. J. Reckford), Trojan Women (P. Burian / A. Shapiro), Rhesos (R. E. Braun)]; vol. 2: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays [Electra (J. Lembke / K. J. Reckford), Iphigenia in Tauris (R. Lattimore), Orestes (J. Peck / F. Nisetich), Iphigenia at Aulis (W. S. Merwin / G. E. Dimock)]; vol. 3: Hippolytos and Other Plays [Hippolytos (R. Bagg), Suppliant Women (R. Warren / S. Scully), Ion (W. S. Di Piero / P. Burian), The Children of Herakles (H. Taylor / R. A. Brooks)]; vol. 4: Bacchae and Other Plays [Herakles (T. Sleigh / C. Wolff), Phoenician Women (P. Burian / B. Swann), Bacchae (R. Gibbons / C. Segal)]; vol. 5: Medea and Other Plays [Alcestis (W. Arrowsmith), Medea (M. Collier / G. Machemer), Helen (P. Burian), Cyclops (H. McHugh / D. Konstan)] [WorldCat (collected)] [WorldCat (separate publications)]
  • LCL: D. Kovacs, 5 vols. (1995-2002) [WorldCat]; Fragments, ed. / tr. C. Collard and M. J. Cropp, 2 vols. (2008) [WorldCat]
  • Methuen: P. D. Arnott [Hecuba]; J. Brooks, later J. M. Walton (2000) [Medea]; R. Cannon [Andromache]; K. McLeish [Helen, Ion, Electra, Orestes, Iphigenia in Tauris, Herakles’ Children, Herakles, Suppliants]; F. Raphael and K. McLeish [Hippolytos]; D. Taylor [The Women of Troy, Iphigenia at Aulis]; D. Thompson [The Phoenician Women]; J. M. Walton [Bacchae, Cyclops, Alkestis, Rhesos; from 2000, Medea] — 6 vols. (1988-97, 1998, 2000) [WorldCat]
  • Penn: J. T. Barbarese [Children of Heracles]; P. Bovie [Cyclops]; F. Chappell [Alcestis]; G. Delanty [Orestes]; G. Economou [Rhesus]; R. Elman [Phoenician Women]; D. M. Epstein [The Bacchae]; R. Hadas [Helen]; D. Junkins [Andromache]; C. Kizer [Iphigenia in Tauris]; R. Moore [Hippolytus]; E. S. Morgan [Electra]; J. F. Nims [Suppliant Women]; D. H. Roberts [Ion]; M. Rudman with K. Washburn [Daughters of Troy]; E. Terranova [Iphigenia at Aulis]; K. Washburn and D. Curzon [The Madness of Heracles]; E. Wilner with I. Azar [Medea] — 4 vols. (1997-99) [WorldCat]
  • Chicago: W. Arrowsmith [The Cyclops, Heracles, Hecuba, Orestes, Bacchae]; W. Bynner [Iphigenia in Tauris]; R. Gladstone [Heracleidae]; D. Grene [Hippolytus]; F. W. Jones [The Suppliant Women]; R. Lattimore [Alcestis, Helen, The Trojan Women, Rhesus]; J. F. Nims [Andromache]; E. T. Vermeule [Electra]; C. R. Walker [Iphigenia in Aulis]; R. Warner [Medea]; R. F. Willetts [Ion]; E. Wyckoff [The Phoenician Women] — 5 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955-59) [WorldCat]; now in revised (3rd) edition (2013) [WorldCat]
  • LCL: tr. A. S. Way (1912-16) [Loebolus], reprinted (revised) from Way, The Tragedies of Euripides in English Verse (London, 1894-98) [Archive.org: vol. 1 (Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; Hecuba; Ion; Suppliants); vol. 2 (Andromache; Children of Herakles; Daughters of Troy; Electra; Helen; Madness of Herakles); vol. 3 (Phoenician Maidens; Orestes; Iphigeneia in Taurica; Iphigeneia at Aulis; Bacchanals; Rhesus)]; a translation of Cyclops (unattributed?) was added for the LCL (see introduction)
  • E. P. Coleridge, 2 vols. (London, 1891; variously reprinted) [Archive.org: vol. 1; vol. 2]
  • M. Wodhull, The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides, 4 vols. (London, 1782); new edition, 3 vols. (London, 1809) [Archive.org: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3]
  • R. Potter (London, 1781-3); reprinted (Oxford, 1823) [Archive.org: vol. 1 (Bacchae; Ion; Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; Phoenician Virgins; Supplicants; Hercules; Heraclidae); vol. 2 (Iphigenia in Aulis; Rhesus; Trojan Dames; Hecuba; Helena; Electra; Orestes; Iphigenia in Tauris; Andromache)]

Collections

  • R. Bagg, Four by Euripides: New Translations (Boston, 2019) [Medea, Bakkhai, Hippolytos, Cyclops] [WorldCat]
  • R. Hadas, Euripides: The Iphigenia Plays. New Verse Translations (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018) [Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia among the Taurians] [WorldCat] [Google Books preview]
  • C. A. E. Luschnig, Three Other Theban Plays (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2016) [includes Supplices, Phoenician Women] [WorldCat]
  • C. A. E. Luschnig, Euripides: The Orestes Plays (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2013) [Electra, Iphigenia among the Tauri, Orestes] [WorldCat]
  • C. E. Luschnig and P. Woodruff, Euripides: Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis [Electra and Bacchae reprinted from earlier publications] (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2011) [Google Books preview]
  • S. Esposito et al., Odysseus at Troy (Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2010) [includes Hecuba, Trojan Women] [WorldCat] [BMCR]
  • A. Carson, An Oresteia (New York, 2010) [includes Orestes] [WorldCat]
  • A. Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York, 2006) [Herakles, Hekabe, Hippolytos, Alkestis] [WorldCat]
  • M. McDonald, K. McLeish, and F. Raphael, Greek Tragedy, Drama Classic Collections (London, 2005) [includes Medea, Bacchae] [WorldCat]
  • S. Esposito, A. Podlecki, and M. R. Halleran, Euripides: Four Plays (Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2004) [Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae] [WorldCat]
  • R. E. Meagher, The Essential Euripides: Dancing in Dark Time (Wauconda, IL, 2002) [Hekabe, Helen, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Bacchae] [WorldCat] [Google Books preview]
  • Oxford World’s Classics: R. Waterfield (Oxford, 2001) [Ion, Orestes, Phoenician Women, Suppliant Women]; (Oxford, 2003) [Alcestis, Heracles, Children of Heracles, Cyclops] [WorldCat]
  • J. Morwood [often printed in Oxford World’s Classics] (Oxford, 1997) [Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen] [WorldCat]; (Oxford, 1999) [Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus] [WorldCat]; (Oxford, 2000) [Hecuba, Trojan Women, Andromache] [WorldCat]
  • Penguin Classics (newer): J. Davie, Medea and Other Plays (London: Penguin, 1996) [Alcestis, Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, Medea]; J. Davie, Electra and Other Plays (London: Penguin, 1998) [Andromache, Hecuba, Suppliant Women, Trojan Women, Electra]; J. Davie (with intro. by R. Rutherford), Heracles and Other Plays (London: Penguin, 2002)  [Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion, Helen, Cyclops, Heracles] [WorldCat]
  • R. Blondell [Medea], M.-K. Gamel [Iphigenia at Aulis], N. S. Rabinowitz [Alcestis], B. Zweig [Helen], Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (New York, 1999) [WorldCat]
  • P. Roche, Euripides: Ten Plays (New York, 1998) [Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, The Cyclops] [WorldCat]
  • C. Collard, M. J. Cropp, and K. H. Lee, Selected Fragmentary Plays (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1995) [WorldCat]
  • K. McLeish, After the Trojan War (1995) [Hecuba, Helen, Women of Troy] [WorldCat]
  • D. Taylor, The War Plays (London, 1990) [Helen, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Women of Troy] [WorldCat]
  • J. Barton and K. Cavander (adapters), The Greeks (London, 1981) [from original translations by Cavander: includes Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women, Hecuba, Helen, Andromache, Iphigenia in Tauris] [WorldCat]
  • N. Curry, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae (Cambridge, 1981) [WorldCat]
  • P. Roche, Three Plays of Euripides (New York, 1974) [Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchae] [WorldCat]
  • R. Corrigan (ed.), S. Goldfield, K. Cavander A. Elliott, and M. Volonakis, The Bacchae, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Medea in Modern Translations (New York, 1965) [WorldCat]
  • P. D. Arnott, Three Greek Plays for the Theatre (Bloomington, IN, 1961) [includes Cyclops, Medea] [WorldCat]
  • R. Warner, Three Great Plays of Euripides (New York, 1958) [Medea, Hippolytus, Helen] [WorldCat]
  • Penguin Classics (older): P. Vellacott, Three Plays [Hippolytus, Alcestis, Iphigenia in Tauris] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953; rev. 1974); P. Vellacott, The Bacchae and Other Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954; repr. 1972) [Helen, Ion, The Women of Troy, Bacchae]; P. Vellacott, Medea and Other Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) [Electra, Hecabe, Heracles, Medea]; Orestes and Other Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972) [Andromache, The Children of Heracles, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Phoenician Women, The Suppliant Women, Orestes]; cf. also P. Vellacott, Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae, illustrated by M. Ayrton (London, Limited Edition Club, 1967) [WorldCat]
  • H. O. Meredith, Four Dramas of Euripides (London, 1936) [Hecuba, Heracles, Andromache, Orestes] [WorldCat]
  • M. Hadas and J. H. McLean, The Plays of Euripides (New York, 1936; repr. 1960) [Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Andromache, Ion, Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigenia among the Taurians, The Bacchants, Iphigenia at Aulis] [WorldCat (1936 ed.)]
  • A. T. Murray, Four Plays of Euripides (Stanford / Oxford, 1931) [Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Iphigenia among the Taurians] [WorldCat]
  • G. Murray, The Plays of Euripides (Gregynog, 1931) [Hippolytus, Bacchae, Trojan Women, Electra, Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis, Rhesus] [WorldCat]
  • C. E. Robinson, The Genius of the Greek Drama (Oxford, 1921 [1924?]) [includes Medea] [Archive.org]
  • G. Murray, The Plays of Euripides (1911) [Archive.org: vol. 1: Hippolytus, Trojan Women, Bacchae; vol. 2: Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra] — plays also printed separately
  • G. Murray, Euripides, in The Athenian Drama, 3 vols. (London, 1900-1902) [Hippolytus, Bacchae] [Google Books]
  • H. H. Milman and M. Wodhull, The Bacchanals and Other Plays of Euripides, with intro by H. Morley (London, 1888) [Bacchanals tr. Milman; Ion, Medea, The Phoenician Damsels, The Suppliants, Hippolytus tr. Wodhull] [Archive.org]
  • W. C. Lawton, Three Dramas of Euripides (Boston and New York, 1889) [Alcestis, Hippolytus, Medea] [1890 printing: Archive.org]
  • H. Williams, The Medea, Alcestis, and Hippolytus of Euripides (London, 1871)
  • J. B. Rose, Greek Dramas [adapted from R. Potter] (London, 1867-72) [WorldCat] [Alcestis, Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Andromache, Medea, Helen] [Google Books: vol. 1 (Prometheus, Agamemnon, Oedipus [Rex], Ajax, Alcestis, Hecuba); vol. 2 (Iphigenia in Aulis, Choephoroi, Eumenides, Iphigenia in Tauris; vol. 3 (Supplicants [Aeschylus], Andromache, Medeia, Antigone, Philoctetes, Helena]
  • J. Cartwright, Translations from Euripides (London, 1866 / 1868) [Medea, Iphigenia in Aulis,  Iphigenia in Tauris] [Google Books]
  • T. A. Buckley (London: Bohn, 1848, variously reprinted) [Google Books: vol. 1, including Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Bacchae, Heraclidae, Iphigenia in Aulide, Iphigenia in Tauris; vol. 2, including Hercules Furens, Troades, Ion, Andromache, Suppliants, Helen, Electra, Cyclops, Rhesus]
  • Anon., The Hecuba, Medea, Phoenissae, and Orestes (London, 1847); “new edition” (London, 1849) [Archive.org]
  • Anon., The Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenician Virgins, and Medea of Euripides (Oxford, 1820) [Google Books]; 5th ed. (Oxford, 1837) [Google Books]; 6th ed. (Oxford, 1847) [Google Books]
  • J. Bannister, Select Tragedies of Euripides (London, 1780) [Phoenissae, Iphigenia in Aulis, Troades, Orestes]
  • P. Brumoy, The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy, tr. C. Lennox, 3 vols. (London, 1759) [details on Brumoy page] [Google Books: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3]

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