Euripides vs The plays of Euripides: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Tragedy, Greek drama, Criticism and interpretation, Greek Mythology, History and criticism, Mythology
Euripides
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The…
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The plays of Euripides
Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves her—here in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murray into English rhyming verse. With…
The verdict
- The plays of Euripides is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 3 for Euripides.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Euripides | The plays of Euripides | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (27) | — |
Reception
| Euripides | The plays of Euripides | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 27 | — |
| Editions | 8 | 19 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 45 | — |
| Reading it now | 2 | — |
| Written reviews | 4 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 34590 | — |
| Pages | 177 | 64 |