Medea

About Sheila Murnaghan's translation

"A terrific new translation-Murnaghan's Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers."

-KIRK ORMAND, author of Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

About the author

Sheila Murnaghan is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey and numerous articles on Greek epic and tragedy, gender in classical culture, and classical reception. She is the co-editor of Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home and Women and Slaves in Classical Culture: Differential Equations.

Product details

• Authors: Euripides
• Assisted by: Sheila Murnaghan (Translation), Sheila (University of Pennsylvania) Murnaghan (Translation)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2021
• EAN: 9780393870848
• ISBN: 978-0-393-87084-8
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 93 g
• Series: Norton Library (Paperback); The Norton Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; DRAMA / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Ancient, classical and medieval texts