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ancient Greek drama
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classical drama
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Euripides
fifth-century BC
Greek mythology
Greek playwrights
Greek theater
Greek tragedy
Helen
intellectual drama
Loeb Classical Library
mythological drama
Oedipus sons
Orestes
Orestes myth
pathos
Phoenician Women
Thebes
tragic plays
Trojan War
Troy
virtue
Product details
- ISBN 9780674996007
- Weight: 404g
- Dimensions: 108 x 162mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2002
- 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.
Helen, in Volume V, employs an alternative history in which a virtuous and faithful Helen was falsely blamed for the actions of her divinely created double in Troy. Here too are Phoenician Women, the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, recasting Orestes’ lot after he murdered his mother.
David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
