5th century BC
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Alcestis
ancient Greek drama
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Athenian drama
Author_Euripides
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classical literature
classical tragedy
Cyclops
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Euripides
Euripides plays
Greek classics
Greek myths
Greek plays
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Loeb Classical Library
Medea
mythological plays
pathos in drama
revenge tragedy
satyr play
tragic heroines
Product details
- ISBN 9780674995604
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 108 x 162mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1994
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Three plays by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.
One of antiquity’s greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays is in six volumes.
In Volume I of the edition are Cyclops, the only complete satyr play that has survived from antiquity; Alcestis, the story of a woman who agrees, in order to save her husband’s life, to die in his place; and Medea, a revenge tragedy in which Medea kills her own children to punish their father.
David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
