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Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 1466 3 1221846 1 8 2006 Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books Classics) total:65|5:33|4:25|3:7|2:0|1:0| 65 286 129 18 973 3.90 5918 398 34336 4.31 4774 591 28883816 193310 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 62  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 4 10 false Thu Jul 31 10:31:50 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 16:37:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4577863 258790 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 5 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 06:51:03 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 08:36:57 -0700 2007
Carson begins her preface to this collection with a seemingly naive question. But Euripides begs the question; I mean, my god! Upon returning from HELL, Herakl...more...]]> 12324028 764994 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 4 0 true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 12 08:46:42 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 08:55:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 10364650 167508 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 13 07:35:46 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 07:36:22 -0800 2007 more...]]> 51604443 2184529 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 14:25:41 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 14:27:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 70093664 1111333 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 5 0 false Fri Sep 04 17:55:34 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:59:13 -0700 2009
"Is all anger sexual?"

What a thought provoking last line! And what a strange, albeit interesting, take on classical reason and foresight.]]> 64615416 722615 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 4 0 false Wed Jul 22 22:20:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 22:22:08 -0700 2009
She had me right there.]]> 33705369 1146398 1500416 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500416.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 5.00 1  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 5 0 false Wed Sep 24 07:23:37 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 17 08:11:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1367170 80242 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 3 0 false Tue May 22 11:06:17 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:53:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46877229 1739658 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 4 0 false Thu Feb 19 12:11:39 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 12:12:15 -0800 2009 Honors the original text by not patronizing it.
]]> 52947716 131364 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 3 0 false Thu Apr 16 16:05:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 16:05:34 -0700 2009 47333973 1185773 1233242 1590172531 9781590172537 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1233242.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.00 2
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.” His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless–women and children, slaves and barbarians–for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides’ latest tragedies.

Four of those tragedies are presented here in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:31:07 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 19:18:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 15072017 119588 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 3 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 13:16:31 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 18:07:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 20435468 365504 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 5 0 false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 17 22:20:59 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 20 01:53:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40566583 1569525 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 4 0 false Sat Dec 20 20:37:58 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 00:11:33 -0800 2008 7079602 423027 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 4 0 false Mon Oct 01 07:53:42 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 07:56:26 -0700 2007 28444983 1337758 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 5 0 false Sun Jul 27 14:36:35 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 14:41:19 -0700 2008 7320810 478400 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 5 0 false Fri Oct 05 15:21:02 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 15:21:49 -0700 2007 81267743 3051265 1466 1590171802 9781590171806 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672m/1466.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284672s/1466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65  
Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 0 0 false Wed Dec 16 22:57:29 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 16 22:57:29 -0800 2009 80375632 1110931 1233242 1590172531 9781590172537 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1233242.Grief_Lessons_Four_Plays_by_Euripides 4.40 65
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.” His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless–women and children, slaves and barbarians–for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides’ latest tragedies.

Four of those tragedies are presented here in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”]]> 2006 0 0 false Tue Dec 08 21:48:32 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 21:48:32 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1466