Euripides, Volume III. Suppliant Women. Electra. Heracles (Loeb Classical Library No. 9)
Euripides (Author), David Kovacs (Translator)
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One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, are four of his plays.
Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. Euripides's Electra--presenting the famous legend of a brother and sister who seek revenge on their mother for killing their father--is a portrayal interestingly different from that of Aeschylus or Sophocles. Heracles shows the malice of the gods--and mutual loyalty as the human response to divinely sent disaster.
David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text and a new translation that, in the words of Greece and Rome, is "close to the Greek and reads fluently and well."
- Rank: #372951 in Books
- Published on: 1998-09-01
- Released on: 1998-10-01
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: Ancient Greek
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.65" h x 4.65" w x .83" l, .67 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
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