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Helen / Euripides ; edited by William Allan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Euripides.
- Series:
- Cambridge Greek and Latin classics
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Euripides--Criticism and interpretation.
- Euripides.
- Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta--Drama.
- Helen.
- Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 371 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Euripides and Athens 1
- (a) Life and works 1
- (b) Helen in its Athenian context 4
- 2 The figure of Helen in early Greek culture 10
- (a) Myth 10
- (b) Cult 14
- 3 Helen on stage 16
- 4 The 'new' Helen 18
- (a) Stesichorus 18
- (b) Herodotus 22
- (c) Euripides 24
- 5 The production 29
- (a) Setting and staging 29
- (b) Structure and dramatic technique 34
- (c) Speech, song, language 38
- 6 A tragedy of ideas 46
- (a) Knowledge and reality 47
- (b) Family, gender, authority 49
- (c) Greeks and Egyptians 55
- (d) The Gods 61
- 7 Genre 66
- 8 Helen transformed 72
- 9 The text and its transmission 82
- Helen 91.
- Notes:
- Text in Greek, introduction and commentary in English.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-364) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780521836906
- 0521836905
- 9780521545419
- 0521545412
- OCLC:
- 174130609
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