Euripides: Medea
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Description
This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language…
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Key features
- Provides expert guidance for students of ancient Greek in translating and understanding the most famous play of Euripides
- Introduces problems of interpretation and cultural significance of the play, with ample reference to contemporary bibliography in English
- Introduces important aspects of Greek tragedy, including special sections presenting the language and style of tragedy and basic concepts of prosody and metre
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511806223
- Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Subjects Classical Literature,Classical Studies
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 16 September 2002
- ISBN: 9780521643863
- Dimensions (mm): 186 x 123 mm
- Weight: 0.465kg
- Page extent: 440 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9780511806223
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