Suppliant Women Electra, Heracles - The Loeb Classical Library

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, are four of his plays.Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. Euripides's Electra--presenting the famous legend of a brother and sister who seek revenge on their mother for killing their father--is a portrayal interestingly different from that of Aeschylus or Sophocles. Heracles shows the malice of the gods--and mutual loyalty as the human response to divinely sent disaster.David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text and a new translation that, in the words of Greece and Rome, is "close to the Greek and reads fluently and well."

ISBN:	9780674995666
Publisher:	Harvard
Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Published date:	01 Oct 1998
DEWEY:	882.01
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English,Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Number of pages:	455
Weight:	346g
Height:	169mm
Width:	110mm
Spine width:	25mm

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