3 Great Plays of Euripides
Publisher: Plume
Published: October 19, 1958
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780452010406
First sentence: THE ATHENIAN AUDIENCE who saw the first performance of Euripides' Medea at the state dramatic contest in 431 B.C. and who awarded the third prize to Euripides would have been familiar with the whole story of the chief characters, and we, twenty-three centuries later, are handicapped in our understanding of the play if we have not at least some knowledge of the same story.