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Rhesos / Euripides ; translated by Richard Emil Braun.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Greek tragedy in new translations.
- The Greek tragedy in new translations
- Standardized Title:
- Rhesus. English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhesus (Legendary character)--Drama.
- Rhesus (Legendary character).
- Trojan War--Drama.
- Trojan War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been lost. In this exciting translation, Rhesos is no longer treated as a derivative Euripidean work, but rather as the tightly-knit tragedy of knowledge it really is. A drama in which profound problems of fate and free will come alive, Rhesos is also an exploration of the perversion of values that come as the r
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Rhesos""; ""Notes on the Text""; ""Glossary"
- Notes:
- Translation of: Rhesus.
- First published in 1978 by Oxford University Press.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-972963-8
- 1-280-44138-0
- 1-4237-3522-6
- 1-60129-861-7
- OCLC:
- 826493113
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