The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume 1

Euripides

Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley

30 chapters · about 10 h

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The opening

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

GHOST OF POLYDORE. HECUBA. CHORUS OF FEMALE CAPTIVES. POLYXENA. ULYSSES. TALTHYBIUS. FEMALE ATTENDANT. AGAMEMNON. POLYMESTOR AND HIS CHILDREN.

The Scene lies before the Grecian tents, on the coast of the Thracian Chersonese.

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The words
Theodore Alois Buckley's English translation, copied word for word.
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  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 3 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 11 places
  • Notes about a stage production