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Title: Euripides: 10 Plays by Paul Roche, Euripides, Euripedes ISBN: 0451527003 Publisher: Signet Classic Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67
Rating: 1
Summary: Too much Roche - not enough Euripides
Comment: Roche's translations of Euripides' tragedies are intrusive. He adds stage directions and characterizations that influence how the reader views the people in the plays. Readers may believe that these stage directions are from Euripides, but most of them are not. I find it irksome having to differentiate between Roche's interpretation of character and Euripides' text.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent translations. The best Medea I've ever read.
Comment: I am a theatre director and playwright. I read every translation of Medea I could find. This 1998 translation by Roche, after twenty years of ripening, is fresh, clear, and strong. He prioritized retaining the ( ( ( s o u n d ) ) ) of the ancient greek, and his poet's ear captured its slippery almost-iambic trimeter perfectly. A powerful, haunting, contemporary translation. "Deep is her sobbing from depths of pain/ Shrill is the answer her suffering gives/ To the news of a woman betrayed/ A love gone wrong..." A mature poet's text, translated by an equally sensitive poet. It doesn't get any better than this.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vigorous Euripides Top 10 - For Acting For Reading
Comment: First the 10 Plays -- Alcestis / Hippolytus / Ion / Electra / Iphigenia at Aulis / Iphigenia among the Taurians / Medea / The Bacchae / The Trojan Women / The Cyclops -- together with a pronouncing Glossary of names and places. Tops out at about 575 pages.
Placing the only extant ancient Greek satyr play, Cyclops, at the end, Roche supplies the needed comic relief of Odysseus among the randy, wine-craving satyrs who toil away for the famed one-eyed Polyphemus.
Roche's introductory material is short, clear and useful, especially will thought out his method of translating Greek meters into English verse. Each play has a brief introduction as well.
The translations are vigorous, modern, and to this reader both lyrical and moving. Roche's poetical gifts are obvious and put to effective use.
Let Paul Roche be ivy-crowned, son of Semele, son of Zeus!
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Title: Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Paul Roche, E. A. Sophocles ISBN: 0451527844 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Clouds, the Birds, Lysistrata, the Frogs by Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith ISBN: 0452007178 Publisher: New American Library Trade Pub. Date: 1984 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Athanasius : The Life of Anthony and the Letter To Marcellinus by Robert C. Gregg, Athanasius ISBN: 0809122952 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 1980 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Aeneid by Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald ISBN: 0679729526 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Odyssey by Homer, Stanley Lombardo, Sheila Murnaghan ISBN: 0872204847 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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