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ancient Greek drama
Athenian tragedy
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classical drama
classical literature
complex characters
dramatic probing
Electra
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Euripides
fifth century BC
Greek legends
Greek literature
Greek mythology
Greek playwrights
Greek theater
Greek tragedy
Heracles
human happiness
legend of Clytaemestra
Loeb Classical Library
mythological drama
pathos
rule of law
Suppliant Women
tragic plays
Product details
- ISBN 9780674995666
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 108 x 162mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1998
- 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.
Volume III contains three plays. Suppliant Women reflects on the rule of law; Electra gives Euripides’ version of the legend of Clytaemestra’s murder by her children; Heracles testifies to the fragility of human happiness.
David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
