Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson

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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson. 2006 New York Review of Books, first printing, 312 pages. According to NYRB: "Euripides’ plays rarely won first p rize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides’ latest tragedies." Anne Carson is a classist and renowned poet. Condition: VG "Your grief is as great as your splendor was" Show more