Children of Heracles. It tells of the punishment that the goddess Aphrodite inflicts on a young man who refuses to worship her. Hecuba and Andromache recreate the tragic stories of two noble Trojan women after their city's fall. In this second volume of the new Loeb Classical Library Euripides David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text facing an accurate and graceful prose translation.
Explanatory notes clarify allusions and nuances, and a brief introduction to each play is provided.
David Kovacs is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia . Iphigenia among the Taurians.