Heracles and Other Plays - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Euripides, Robin Waterfield, Edith Hall (Introduction by)Series:Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)Publish date:2008-11-15Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199555093ISBN-10:199555095UPC:9780199555093Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC53TD9JBS
Heracles and Other Plays
Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor that characterized the genre. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim...
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199555093ISBN-10:199555095UPC:9780199555093Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC53TD9JBS
Robin Waterfield has translated numerous classical texts for OWC, including Plato's Republic, Herodotus' Histories and Plutarch's Greek Lives and Roman Lives Edith Hall is co-director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on ancient Greek drama and society, reviews and appears on radio and television. She has written...
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