Herakles - Couverture souple

Sleigh; Christian Wolff, Euripides; Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195131169 ISBN 13 : 9780195131161

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Euripides

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order . Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power. The play depicts Herakles being driven mad by Hera, the wife of Zeus. Hera hates Herakles because he is one of Zeus' children born of adultery. In his madness, Herakles is driven to murder his own wife and children, and he eventually exiles himself to Athens. The volume includes a new translation, an introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Euripides ; Thomas Sleigh Professor of English ;A24 Christian Wolff Professor of Classics and Strauss Professor of Music both at Dartmouth College

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0195131169
• ISBN 13: 9780195131161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124