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kr236rk
07-09-2009, 02:51 PM
hello,

there are several plays of Euripides in translation on the net, they seem to end abruptly, is this so please?


http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/iph_taur.html

http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/iphi_aul.html


many thanks

Ric

Pryderi Agni
07-10-2009, 01:23 AM
The Iphigenia series of plays (yeah, didn't even need to look at the links:banana:) end abruptly because they found only fragments of his work, I think. The Greek playwrights are thus very hard to enjoy, because so little of their work is preserved by history.

kr236rk
07-10-2009, 09:26 AM
The Iphigenia series of plays (yeah, didn't even need to look at the links:banana:) end abruptly because they found only fragments of his work, I think. The Greek playwrights are thus very hard to enjoy, because so little of their work is preserved by history.

Pryderi - 'care'

Agni - 'fire'

thanks: never mind - i found a slightly longer version here:

http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/iph_taur.pl.txt

;)

R