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Euripides: Suppliant Women

By Ian C. Storey

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury
Year
2008
ISBN
9781472539793, 9780715636268
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1627009 bytes)
Series
Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
Pages
\155
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-07-01 01:53:07

Description

Euripides’ ‘Suppliant Women’ is an unfairly neglected master work by the most controversial of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece. It dramatises the story of one of the proudest moments in Athenian mythical history: the intervention of These us in support of international law to force the burial of the Argives who were killed during their attack on 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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