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Euripides (edited, with an introduction, by Robert W Corrigan. Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis The Bacchae in modern translations)
Euripides - edited, with an introduction, by Robert W Corrigan. Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis The Bacchae in modern translations Author:Robert C Corrigan "For the essential conflict in his drama is not between man & the gods or Fate. It is between man & man, or within man. The essential evil is human injustice, human irrationality, human folly. The gods may symbolize this evil...but the real cause of tragedy in Euripides remains the passions of man. His realism, his pessimism, and his idealism al... more »ike sprang from his abiding concern with the nature of man: a creature with a god-like power of reason, who was so often mastered by unreason; a creature with a terrible capacity for passion, which could also be god-like."« less