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Euripides: Suppliant Women

By Ian C. Storey

Book information

Publisher
Duckworth Publishers
Year
2009
ISBN
071563626X, 9780715636268
Open Library ID
OL11254009M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4263015 bytes)
Series
Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
Pages
161\161
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Euripides' Suppliant Women is an unfairly neglected master work by the most controversial of the three great tragedians. It dramatises the story of one of the proudest moments in Athenian mythical history: the intervention of Theseus in support of international law to force the burial of the Argive dead at Thebes. But Euripides adds new characters to the story and presents the myth in a different and sometimes ambiguous light. A sense of uncertainty and undercutting pervades this play, which dramatises the sufferings of the innocent in war and then at the end foretells more war. As well as presenting a scene-by-scene analysis, this book will discuss the date and background of the play, whether people and events from contemporary Athens can be glimpsed in the drama; the problems of staging, and finally the story in later tradition.

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