THE
TRAGEDIES
OF
EURIPIDES.
LITERALLY TRANSLATED OR REVISED,
WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,
BY
THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY,
OF CHRIST CHURCH.
VOL. I.
HECUBA, ORESTES, PHŒNISSÆ, MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, ALCESTIS,
BACCHÆ, HERACLIDÆ, IPHIGENIA IN AULIDE,
AND IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1892.
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
HECUBA.
ORESTES.
THE PHŒNICIAN VIRGINS.
MEDEA.
HIPPOLYTUS.
ALCESTIS.
THE BACCHÆ.
THE HERACLIDÆ.
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS.
IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS.
PREFACE.
The translations of the first six plays in the present volume were  published at Oxford some years since, and have been frequently reprinted.  They are now carefully revised according to Dindorf's text, and are  accompanied by a few additional notes adapted to the requirements of the  student.
The translations of the Bacchæ, Heraclidæ, and the two Iphigenias, are  based upon the same text, with certain exceptions, which are pointed out  at the foot of the page. The annotations on the Iphigenias are almost  exclusively critical, as it is presumed that a student who proceeds to  the reading of these somewhat difficult plays[1], will be sufficiently advanced in his  acquaintance with the Greek drama to dispense with more elementary  information.
T.A. BUCKLEY,
    CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD.
[1] The reader will obtain  some notion of the difficulties alluded to, and the best mode of  grappling with them, by consulting the recent Cambridge edition,  published with English notes (Iph. in Aulide, 1840, in Tauris, 1846),  performances of great critical acumen, attributed to the present Bishop  of Gloucester.
INTRODUCTION.
Euripides, son of Mnesarchus, was born in the island of Salamis, on  the day of the celebrated victory (B.C. 480). His mother, Clito, had been  sent thither in company with the other Athenian women, when Attica was  given up, and the ships became at once the refuge of the male population,  and the national defense. Mr. Donaldson[1] well remarks, that the patronymic form  of his name, derived from the Euripus, which was the scene of the first  successful resistance offered to the Persian navy, shows that the  attention of his parents was fully excited by the stirring events of the  time.
Notwithstanding the fact that his mother had been an herb-seller, it  is probable that his father was a man of some family. That he was at  least possessed of ample means, is evident from the care and expense  bestowed upon our poet's education. Under the                         
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