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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
A performance lasting ninety minutes, a language few of the audience can understand, a play more than 2,400 years old, and the immediate result—continuous applause for more than twenty minutes. This is a measure of the success of ancient tragedy in modern Greek translations and productions when on tour. In Greece itself, performances are frequently attended by audiences of twelve to fourteen thousand, most of whom have come from considerable distances, such as the 112 miles from Athens to Epidaurus.
1 R. Willetts (trans.), Euripides’ Ion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 11.1445-52.
2 Moses Hadas (trans.), The Plays of Euripides Including … Andromache (New York: Dial Press, 1936), p. 105.
3 Moses Hadas (trans.), The Plays of Euripides Including… Medea (New York: Dial Press, 1936), pp. 37-38.
4 Ibid., p. 55.