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Of the plays in this volume, Helen is the most interesting in theory but unfortunate in execution, Cyclops is the dirtiest, and Trojan Women is the most impressive. Euripides based Helen on an alternate and less well known version of the myth in which Helen, instead of being carried off to Troy by Paris, is magically transported to Egypt by Hermes while a 'ghost' Helen is created by the goddess Hera, and it is this fake Helen who is fought over by the Greeks and Trojans. An interesting version,
This volume contains The Trojan Women, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Ion, Helen, and The Cyclops There are two ways to translate Greek drama into English: employ lofty verbiage to convey the exalted nature of the text, or employ casual and common speech to capture the effect of the original Greek on Greek audiences. Dr. Carl R. Mueller has opted for the latter and he achieves it with remarkable success.By rendering Euripides in a very colloquial and plebeian English, Mueller captures that sense of the p...