| Description |
1 online resource (161 pages) |
| Series |
Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy |
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Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Prelude to a Play; 2. Adrastos' Supplication; 3. Confrontation with Thebes; 4. Mourning the Dead; 5. Aftermath; 6. Reading Suppliant Women; 7. Staging Suppliant Women; 8. Postludes; Notes; Guide to Further Reading; Glossary; A; C; D; E; H; I; K; M; N; O; P; S; T; Chronology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; X; Y |
| Summary |
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 Theseus 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Euripides. Supplices.
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| SUBJECT |
Supplices (Euripides) fast |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Greek literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472521156 |
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1472521153 |
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