Synopsis
The three works of Euripides included in this volume, translated by Francisco Rodriguez Adrados, are counted among the most representative ones of the great tragic athenian. Related to the Troy cycle, Andromache explores the history of Troyan captive women. Herecles gathers the ferocious episode of the life of the hero in which he, disturbed by the Hera goddess, gives death to his children and wife Megara. In The Bacchae King Penteo, emblem of the state’s power and the rational, is punished by his opposition to the dionisiac cult, and to the vital and irrational forces that he represents.