Heracles and Other Plays

Eurípides (Editor); Robin Waterfield (Translator); Edith Hall (Other); James Morwood (Other)

Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor t...