Könyv jellemzők | |
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Kiadó | Oxford University Press |
Oldalszám | 272 |
Kötés | Fűzött |
Méret (cm) | 19.6x12.9x0.0 |
ISBN | 9780199537969 |
Nyelv | Angol |
Nyelvi szint | C2-anyanyelvi |
Kiadás éve | 2008 |
Sorozat | Oxford World\'s Classics |
gave to female characters, whether heroines of virtue or vice. In the ethically shocking Medea, the first known child-killing mother in Greek myth to perform the deed in cold blood manipulates her world in order to wreak vengeance on her treacherous
husband. Hippolytus sees Phaedra's confession of her passion for her stepson herald disaster, while Electra's heroine helps her brother murder their mother in an act that mingles justice and sin. Lastly, lighter in tone, the satyr drama, Helen, is an
exploration of the impossibility of certitude as brilliantly paradoxical as the three famous tragedies.
This new translation does full justice to Euripides's range of tone and gift for narrative. A lucid introduction provides substantial analysis of each play, complete with vital explanations of the traditions and background to Euripides's world.