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The great anti-war tragedy, translated by Don Taylor. An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides’ great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor’s translation features an introduction by the translator setting the play in its historical and dramaturgical context.