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The Children of Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Euripides is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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One of the shortest plays in Greek drama, The Children of Herakles offers enough action for two or three plays of normal length. But this very richness and complexity have made the play elusive, subject to dismissive readings, and extraordinarily difficult to translate; in consequence, it has suffered from neglect over the ages. This vibrant new translation makes clear that The Children of Herakles is actually a wonderfully well-crafted work of art, a play offering a wealth of rewards to the mod
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Euripides
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195072884
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 2.91 / 5 (86 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- The Children of Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) (1981)
- Heraclidae (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1995)
- Heraclidae (1972)
- Euripides, Vol. VIII: Oedipus-Chrysippus & Other Fragments (Loeb Classical Library, No. 506) (1994)
- Euripides: Bacchae. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus (Loeb Classical Library No. 495) (1994)
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