The BacchaeEuripides

The FrogsAristophanes

About the Book

Translations into contemporary poetry of two masterpieces of the Golden Age of Greek theatre.

About the Author

Francis Blessington has published Wolf Howl and Lantskip (poetry), a novel, The Last Witch of Dogtown, verse translations of Euripides The Bacchae and Aristophanes The Frogs, a verse play, Lorenzo de Medici, Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic, Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic, as well as many essays, poems and short stories. He teaches at Northeastern University.