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Helen ; Phoenician women ; Orestes / Euripides ; edited and translated by David Kovacs.
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- Author/Creator:
- Euripides, author.
- Series:
- Loeb classical library ; 11.
- Loeb Classical Library ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Euripides--Translations into English.
- Euripides.
- Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta--Drama.
- Helen.
- Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta.
- Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character)--Drama.
- Orestes.
- Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character).
- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology)--Drama.
- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Digital Loeb.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) 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. Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. In this fifth volume of the new Loeb Classical Library Euripides, David Kovacs presents a freshly edited Greek text and a faithful and deftly worded translation of three plays. For his Helen the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous Helen never went to Troy but spent the war years in Egypt, falsely blamed for the adulterous behavior of her divinely created double in Troy. This volume also includes Phoenician Women, Euripides' treatment of the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, a novel retelling of Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother, Clytaemestra. Each play is annotated and prefaced by a helpful introduction.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Euripides. Phoenician women.
- Euripides. Orestes.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Euripides. Helen. Phoenician women. Orestes.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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