Suppliant Women. Electra. Heracles
(Loeb Classical Library; 9)
- ISBN: 9780674995666
- Editorial: Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 1998
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Loeb Classical Library
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 20 cm
- Nº Pág.: 464
- Idiomas: Griego moderno; Inglés
One of antiquity’s greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485–406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, are four of his plays.
Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. Euripides’s Electra—presenting the famous legend of a brother and sister who seek revenge on their mother for killing their father—is a portrayal interestingly different from that of Aeschylus or Sophocles. Heracles shows the malice of the gods—and mutual loyalty as the human response to divinely sent disaster.