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Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
lv, 161 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humour that characterized the genre." "There is death in Alcestis, which explores the marital relationship of Alcestis and Admetus with pathos and grim humour,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xlii, 218 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest Greek tragedians, Euripides gives dramatic articulacy to his remorseless view of human nature, and a world in which the gods are malevolent, impotent, or simply absent. With extraordinary psychological insight he portrays a child-killing and vengeful mother, a stepmother's passion for her stepson, and a heroine who helps to murder her mother in an act blurring the boundaries between justice and sin. The satyr drama 'Helen', although...
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