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Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea Euripides

Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea By Euripides

Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea by Euripides


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Euripides (ca. 485-406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.

Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea Summary

Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea by Euripides

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.

Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea Reviews

A well-executed and stimulating production. * Classical Review *
An excellent 48-page general introduction... The translation...is close to the Greek and reads fluently and well. All in all this is an excellent little volume. * Greece and Rome *
Both experts and generalists will benefit from the work of this experienced Euripidean scholar. -- John E. Thorburn * Religious Studies Review *

About Euripides

David Kovacs is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.

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NGR9780674995604
9780674995604
0674995600
Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea by Euripides
New
Hardback
Harvard University Press
19940101
432
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