Euripides, Children of Heracles / Florence Yoon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoon, Florence, 1981- author.

Series:

Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2020

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euripides. Children of Heracles.

Euripides.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Action and expectation

Summing the parts

Heracles and other imagined figures

The power of the weak

Then and now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Other Format:

Print version: Yoon, Florence, 1981- Euripides, Children of Heracles

ISBN:

9781350076785

9781350076778

9781350076761

OCLC:

1132388474

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.