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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Euripides

 
9780140449297: Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140449299 ISBN 13: 9780140449297
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus

'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles

This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. Medea is a towering figure who demonstrates Euripides' unusual willingness to give voice to a woman's case. Alcestis is based on a magical myth in which Death is overcome, and The Children of Heracles examines conflict between might and right, while Hippolytus deals with self-destructive integrity.

Translated by JOHN DAVIE

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Euripides (c.485-406 BC) is thought to have written 92 plays, only 18 of which survive.
John Davie is Head of Classics at St Paul's School in London.
Richard Rutherford is Tutor in Classics at Christ Church, Oxford.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140449299
ISBN 13 
9780140449297
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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