She also includes discussions of major trends in interpretations of the play and of subsequent adaptations of the Hippolytus story, from Seneca to Mary Renault and beyond."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Hippolytus is generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides' finest tragedies, for the construction of its plot, its use of language and its memorable characterisations of Phaedra and Hippolytus. Furthermore,...
Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis.
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This edition offers new textual and interpretive suggestions, and provides detailed guidance on problems of language as well as employing conceptual tools from contemporary linguistics.
This edition offers new textual and interpretive suggestions, and provides detailed guidance on problems of language as well as employing conceptual tools from contemporary linguistics.
This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses.
Iphigenia at Aulis is one of Euripides' most intriguing and challenging plays. It dramatises the myth of Iphigenia, the young virgin sacrificed by her father Agamemnon at the start of...
Euripides: Iphigenia in Aulis
The surviving text of the fragmentary Phaethon of Euripides depends chiefly on two sources: two pages from a Euripidean manuscript, written about A.D. 500, and a papyrus of the third century B.C., which contains a substantial part of the ...
Ar. Ach. 440-1 gives 'these two lines' to Tel., but the last two words of 440 are unmetrical and unidiomatic for ... and a connection with 441 would be preferable, unless the lines were not sequential in Euripides.] 2. be the man ...
Hartigan , K. V. ( 1991 ), Ambiguity and Self-Deception: The Apollo and Artemis Plays of Euripides , Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang . Headlam , W. ( 1901 ), ' Notes on Euripides, II ', Classical Review 15 : 98–108 .
This anthology volume of Euripides IV includes Rhesus a Greek tragedy whose authorship is disputed, The Suppliant Women a political & patriotic drama, Orestes a Greek tragedy, and Iphigenia in Aulis a Greek tragedy that was posthumously ...
This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play.
Zuntz , G. ( 1947 ) , ' Is the Heraclidae Mutilated ? ' , CQ 41 : 46-52 . The following works are referred to by surname only : Diggle J. Diggle , Euripidea ( Oxford , 1994 ) . Garzya A. Garzya ( ed . ) , Euripides : Heraclidae ...
As well as presenting a scene-by-scene analysis, this book will discuss the date and background of the play, whether people and events from contemporary Athens can be glimpsed in the drama; the problems of staging, and finally the story in ...
But Euripides adds new characters to the story and presents the myth in a different and sometimes ambiguous light.
This edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
This book makes "Orestes" accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy.
defend himself against the Furies (26871), is taken from Stesichorus' Oresteia, as is Tyndareus' description of Orestes as a monster at 479 80; the scene where Pylades supports his friend Orestes (7905) may be modelled on thescene in ...