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Title: The Bacchae and Other Plays (The Penguin Classics, L44) by Euripides, Philip Vellacott ISBN: 0-14-044044-5 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1954 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Error in Book Description
Comment: The Book Description given for this book is incorrect. The plays included are the "Ion," "Helen," "Women of Troy" (Trojan Women), and the "Bacchae."

Rating: 5
Summary: The Best of Euripides
Comment: Although it is probably best to read some of Euripides' other plays before this collection, this volume contains the best of his extant work (in my opinion). Besides the Bacchae there are two truly great plays centering around the tragic figure of Iphigenia (a daughter sacrificed to Artemis by Agamemnon so his fleet could set sail for Troy in Homer's Iliad).
Euripides has had his detractors over the centuries, but the oratory, emotion, and sensitivity of his tragedies sets him apart from Aeschylus and Sophocles (each of whom was also excellent for other reasons).

Rating: 4
Summary: A review on the Iphigenia plays
Comment: Included in this volume are two plays whose heroine are Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. One takes place before the Trojan War, and the other after her siblings Orestes and Electra had killed their mother. In the first, "Iphigenia at Aulis", she was to be sacrificed in order to appease Artemis and allow the Greek army to sail to Troy. The plot is the hard decisions the sons of Atreus, Clytemnestra, and Iphigenia herself had to make, to see if the sacrifice would be worth it. It is interesting that this also sheds a new perspective on the return of Agamemnon after the war, beause Ighigenia told her mother not to be angry about it. Obviously, because the "Iphigenia among the Taurians" took place some eighteen years later, she didn't die, but I'll leave the conclusion a surprise. The second play takes place in a barbarian land, where Iphigenia is a pristess. Orestes, her brother, has come here in exile, and is to be sacrificed because he is Greek. AFter they recognize each other, they plan their escape, but will they make it? Read these plays to find out.

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