Ion

A new translation of Euripides' play in which the young hero, a foundling engaged to keep the Temple of Apollo tidy, meets the Queen of Athens. She tells him of "a friend" who was seduced by Apollo and had a baby which she abandoned. After a series of twists and turns, mother and son are reunited.

A translation of one of Euripides' finest plays by one of Britain's most experienced translators Ion is the story of the abandoned child Ion, reunited with her mother Xouthos