Greek Tragedy and Trauma Retold in Three New Translations

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Many believe that it is this urgency that has prompted the desire to return to fundamentals, to seek wisdom in antiquity
Facing the wild and tragic events taking place daily, whether they appear on a global stage or privately, quietly in our own homes, is a more or less explicit concern for all three of the translators reviewed here
In the introduction to her new verse translations of Euripides’s two Iphigenia plays, Rachel Hadas draws attention to the way the characters tell and retell the stories of how they came to be in their current situation