Electra and Other Plays: Euripides
Euripides, wrote Aristotle, 'is the most intensely tragic of all the poets'. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors.Written in the period from 426 to 415 BC, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens and Sparta, these five plays are haunted by the horrors of war - and its particular impact on women. Only the Suppliants, with its extended debate on democracy and monarchy, can be seen as a patriotic piece. The Trojan Women is perhaps the greatest o…
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Weitere Autoren: Rutherford, Richard (Solist) / Davie, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-044668-5
- EAN: 9780140446685
- Produktnummer: 9153849
- Verlag: Penguin Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.6 cm 213 g
- Gewicht: 213
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Euripides (c.485-406 BC) was already a controversial figure in his own lifetime, regarded as a 'clever' poet, associated with philosophers and intellectuals. He is thought to have written 92 plays, only 18 of which survive.John Davie was born in Glasgow in 1950, and educated at Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford. Dr Richard Rutherford was born in Edinburgh in 1956 and has been tutor in Greek & Latin Literature at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982.
100 weitere Werke von Euripides:
Die bittflehenden Mütter. Der Wahnsinn des Herakles. Die Troerinnen. Elektra
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