Euripides: Heracles

English Translations

  • A. Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York, 2006) [review by Emily Wilson in NYSun]
  • R. E. Meagher, in Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War (Northampton, MA, 2006)
  • C. R. Mueller, in Euripides: The Complete Plays, vol. 2 (Hanover, NH, 2005)
  • M. R. Halleran, in Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae, ed. by S. J. Esposito, corr. ed. (Newburyport, MA, 2004; originally published 1988)
  • R. Waterfield (with intro by E. Hall, notes by J. Morwood), Euripides: Heracles and Other Plays, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2003)
  • J. Davie (with notes by R. B. Rutherford), Euripides: Heracles and Other Plays, Penguin Classics (London, 2002) [cf. Mills’ review of a different volume in this series]
  • T. Sleigh (with intro and notes by C. Wolff), Euripides: Herakles (Oxford, 2001), printed in The Complete Euripides, vol. 4: Bacchae and Other Plays (Oxford, 2009) [review by Torrence]
  • K. Washburn and D. Curzon, in Euripides, 4 (Philadelphia, 1999) [review by Torrence]
  • D. Kovacs (ed., tr.), in Euripides, vol. 3, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, 1998) [review by Colakis]
  • K. McLeish, in Euripides: Plays V (London, 1997)
  • S. A. Barlow (ed., tr., comm.), Euripides: Heracles, Aris & Phillips (Warminster, 1996) [review by Kraus]
  • Arnott, in Hecuba and The Madness of Heracles (London, 1969)
  • P. Vellacott, Euripides: Medea and Other Plays, Penguin Classics (1963)
  • W. Arrowsmith, in Euripides II (Chicago, 1956) — now in Euripides III, 3rd ed. (Chicago, 2013)
  • H. O. Meredith, Four Dramas of Euripides: Hecuba, Heracles, Andromache, Orestes (London, 1937)
  • R. M. Thomas, Euripides: Hercules Furens (London, 1894)
  • A. C. Maybury, in How to Pass (London, 1886)
  • “A Graduate,” Euripides’ Hercules Furens (Cambridge, 1876)

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Greek Text and Scholarly Commentaries

Greek Text

  • J. Diggle (ed.), Oxford Classical Texts [Euripides, vol. 2] (Oxford, 1981)
  • Text & Translation:
    • D. Kovacs (ed., tr.), in Euripides, vol. 3, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, 1998) [review by Colakis]
    • S. A. Barlow (ed., tr., comm.), Euripides: Heracles, Aris & Phillips (Warminster, 1996) [review by Kraus]
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Scholarly Books and Articles

Duckworth Companion: Griffiths (2006)

T. Papadopoulou, Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy (Cambridge, 2005)

In-Depth Discussion: Michelini

  • S. A. Barlow, “Structure and Dramatic Realism in Euripides’ Heracles,” Greece & Rome 29 (1982): 115-125.
  • J. C. Kamerbeeck, “Unity and Meaning of Euripides’ Heracles,” Mnemosyne 19 (1966): 1-16.

Reception / Performance

  • K. Riley, The Reception and Performance of Euripides’ Herakles: Reasoning Madness (Oxford, 2008) [Google Books preview]