Euripides: Plays Two (Classical Dramatists)

EuripidesJ. Michael Walton and Peter D. Arnott:

ISBN 10: 0413164209 / ISBN 13: 9780413164209

Published by Bloomsbury Specialist, 1991

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Title: Euripides: Plays Two (Classical Dramatists)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Specialist

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Taschenbuch

Condition: Befriedigend

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Synopsis:

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series


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Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright's changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC. Hecuba is a play of ghosts and shadowy death; The Women of Troy is a searing indictment of the aftermath of defeat; Iphigenia at Aulis shows a human tragedy at the heart of the mechanics of war; and Cyclops is a satyr play which offers a comic antidote to the tragedies.

With an introduction by J. Michael Walton
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About the Author:

Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC. His first play was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some hundred altogether of which nineteen survive – a greater number than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles combined – and which include Alkestis, Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytos, Ion and Iphigenia at Aulis. He died in 406 BC.