Medea - Euripides
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"A masterful translation of a crucial classic. Martin's Medea is crisp, forceful, swift, witty, and utterly believable and persuasive."--Rachel Hadas, author of Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry "Most Greek tragedies begin with a supernatural being, or royalty, or even the Chorus itself. This play, though, has no gods; it opens in the voice of the mortal of absolute lowest status in Greek society--not only a woman, but a slave; not only a slave, but a foreigner; indeed, a female foreign slave whose mistress is herself a refugee. . . . [D]eportation, extradition,…mehr

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"A masterful translation of a crucial classic. Martin's Medea is crisp, forceful, swift, witty, and utterly believable and persuasive."--Rachel Hadas, author of Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry "Most Greek tragedies begin with a supernatural being, or royalty, or even the Chorus itself. This play, though, has no gods; it opens in the voice of the mortal of absolute lowest status in Greek society--not only a woman, but a slave; not only a slave, but a foreigner; indeed, a female foreign slave whose mistress is herself a refugee. . . . [D]eportation, extradition, asylum, exile--Martin emphasizes these timeless issues with a modern vocabulary out of our news cycles." --From the Introduction by A.E. Stallings
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Charles Martin is a poet, translator, and essayist. The author of seven books of poems and translator of Catullus and Ovid, he is the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry magazine, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator who lives in Athens, Greece. Her most recent books are LIKE: Poems and Hesiod's Works and Days.
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