EURIPIDES' MEDEA Translated with an Introduction and Notes

Euripides; A.J. Podlecki, trans

ISBN 10: 0941051102 / ISBN 13: 9780941051101

Edité par Focus Classical Library, Focus Information Group, Inc, Newburyport, MA

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88p. A softcover book in very good condition. Light shelf wear; otherwise clean and tight. This edition undated; ca. 1990s.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: EURIPIDES' MEDEA Translated with an Introduction and Notes
• Éditeur: Focus Classical Library, Focus Information Group, Inc, Newburyport, MA
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0941051102
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780941051101
• Reliure: Paperback
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Classical Studies

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Synopsis

This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek ture.

Biographie de l'auteur

Euripides (484-406 BC) was a Greek dramatist. The last major tragic playwright of the classical world, he has also been called """"the first modern"""". Euripides was not highly successful in his lifetime, winning the first of only five victories at the Dionysia at the age of 43. By the end of the 19th century, however, Euripides was the most acclaimed Greek playwright. And, when the Royal Shakespeare Company presented a ten-play cycle The Greeks in 1980, seven of the works were by Euripides. Only 17 of his 92 plays survive. These include Medea, The Bacchae and Electra. Euripides's innovations included the deus ex machina and the formal prologue. He used simple everyday language, bringing a new realism to the stage. Although contemporaries accused him of killing tragedy, he humanized drama by adding elements of sentiment, romance, and even comedy. He was the first to argue against the social inferiority of women, and the first to show women in love. He was also the first to explore such subjects as madness and repression. A recluse, he shunned Athenian civil and social affairs, and in later life would sit all day in a cave on Salamis overlooking the sea as he contemplated and wrote """"something great and high"""". In 408 BC Euripides was exiled for his unorthodox views to Macedonia, where he died less than two years later. According to tradition, when the Spartans arrived to burn Athens, they desisted after a reminder that this was Euripides's city.