Hippolytos (Griechische Dramen) - Hardcover

Euripides Roth Roth Roth, Peter Peter Pe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110188171 ISBN 13: 9783110188172

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2014

Synopsis

In Euripidesa (TM) drama, Hippolytus angers Aphrodite, the goddess of love, so much by worshiping the hunting goddess Artemis that she makes his Stepmother, Phaedra fall in love with him. Phaedraa (TM)s aged nurse persuades her to confess her love and then informs Hippolytus, who recoils in horror. In desperation Phaedra commits suicide, but leaves a letter in which she names Hippolytus as the reason for her death. As a result he is cursed and banished by his father, Theseus. Whilst taking flight he suffers a gruesome death through Aphroditea (TM)s intervention.Peter Roth presents a bilingual version of Hippolytos with a new prose translation. The extensive commentary requires no prior knowledge of Greek, providing information on factual issues and questions of interpretation. An extensive introduction deals with performance arrangements, the underlying myth, the language and metrics, and general questions of interpretation.

About this title

Review:

`profoundly learned and supremely intelligent book ... a truly great achievement' Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Journal of Hellenic Studies

`This book ... deserves the careful attention of everyone seriously interested in Greek literature.' Journal of Hellenic Studies

'celebrated edition ... I can think of no better advertisement for this type of scholarship which may be unfashionable but still has so much to offer.'Greece & Rome, April 1993

About the Author:

Peter Roth, Universität Augsburg.

About this edition

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3110188171
• ISBN 13: 9783110188172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 404