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Euripides' Alcestis: A New Translation Hardcover - 1999

by Ted Hughes; Hughes


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A masterly translation of one of the greatest of Greek dramas.
Their lives are the briefest concession, My concession, a nod of permission.
As if I dozed off and dreamed a little.-Death in Alcestis In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Ted Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called "one of the great works of our century" (Michael Hofmann, The Times, London), and his Phedre was acclaimed on stage in New York as well as in London. Hughes's version of Euripides' Alcestis, the last of his translations, has the great brio of those works, and it is a powerful and moving addition to the body of work from the final phase of Hughes's career.
Euripides was, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the greatest of Greek dramatists. Alcestis tells the story of the grief of King Admetos for his wife, Alcestis, who has given her young life so that he may live. As translated by Hughes, the story has a distinctly modern sensibility while retaining the spirit of antiquity. It is a profound meditation on human mortality.

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  • Title Euripides' Alcestis: A New Translation
  • Author Ted Hughes; Hughes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 103
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date 1999
  • ISBN 9780374149208 / 0374149208
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.77 x 0.62 in (21.84 x 14.66 x 1.57 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Alcestis (Greek mythology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99042757
  • Dewey Decimal Code 882.01
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