Iphigenia in Aulis - Couverture souple

Euripides

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ISBN 10 : 1617208523 ISBN 13 : 9781617208522

Editeur : SMK Books, 2013

Synopsis

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance.

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Euripides (c. 480-406 BCE) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. His surviving plays helped shape the later history of drama through their psychological intensity, rhetorical power, and searching treatment of myth, family, gender, war, exile, and divine authority. Works such as Medea, The Bacchae, Hippolytus, Electra, The Trojan Women, and Iphigenia in Aulis remain central to classical literature, theatre history, Greek tragedy, and the study of ancient myth.Euripides is often noted for bringing mythic figures closer to human contradiction: kings hesitate, heroes fail, women speak with fierce intelligence, and divine command does not always resolve moral disorder. His tragedies frequently expose the cost of public honour, military ambition, religious obligation, and inherited violence. In Iphigenia in Aulis, written at the end of his career, Euripides turns the prelude to the Trojan War into a devastating drama of political necessity and familial sacrifice, making the play one of his most powerful contributions to ancient classical drama.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SMK Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1617208523
• ISBN 13: 9781617208522
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 40
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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