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Helen. Phoenician Women. Orestes
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Ideal for readers interested in classical drama, Greek tragedy, and the timeless works of Euripides. Suitable for students, scholars, and those passionate about ancient literature and dramatic interpretations.
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See moreEuripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.
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Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. In this fifth volume of the new Loeb Classical Library Euripides, David Kovacs presents a freshly edited Greek text and a faithful and deftly worded translation of three plays.
For his Helen, the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous Helen never went to Troy but spent the war years in Egypt, falsely blamed for the adulterous behaviour of her divinely created double in Troy.
This volume also includes Phoenician Women, Euripides' treatment of the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, a novel retelling of Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother, Clytaemestra. Each play is annotated and prefaced by a helpful introduction.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780674996007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 June 2002
Country: United States
Imprint: LOEB
Contributors:
- Edited and translated by David Kovacs
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 108.0mm
Height: 162.0mm
Weight: 404g
Pages: 624
About the Author
David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
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