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Euripides Bacchae

By Eric Robertson Dodds

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1960
ISBN
978-0198721253
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6013065 bytes)
Edition
2°
Pages
LX+253\316
Time added
2017-05-06 21:33:04

Description

"Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels.... Equally instructive and stimulating is the acute analysis of the play's dramatic elements, its characters, scenes, conflicts, actions, speeches.... This edition far surpasses its predecessors in vitality, sympathy, and scope."--W.B. Stanford, Hermathena LXV. Including a comprehensive discussion of the play's background and an incisive assessment of its dramatic structure, this edition makes an outstanding contribution to Euripides scholarship.

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