Heracles and Other Plays
$21.54
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2008
Summary
Alcestis * Heracles * Children of Heracles * Cyclops
Euripides wrote about timeless themes: friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humour that characterized the genre.
There is death in Alcestis, which explores the marital relationship of Alcestis an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199555093 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199555095 |
| Author: | Euripides, Robin Waterfield, Edith Hall, The late James Morwood |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 127mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Euripides
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, and reviews and appears on radio and television. She has written introductions to the other four volumes of Euripides’ plays in OWC.
James Morwood has translated three volumes of Euripides’ plays for OWC and is the author of The Plays of Euripides and A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases.
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