Euripides: Hecuba Paperback / softback
by Christopher Collard
Part of the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series
Paperback / softback
Description
Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation.
Then Hecuba learns of her sons' treacherous murder by a former ally; out of her terrible loss comes determination for revenge, which she claims as a right but how just is her horrific cruelty?
How credible against her earlier characterisation? The play has striking effects: the ghost of the murdered son, and his murderer subsequently blinded; poignant lyricism; vivid narratives; above all, a careful pattern of scenes demonstrating the equivocal power of 'Persuasion, man's only sovereign' (v.816).
Hecuba is both a study of resilience and weakness, and a typically Euripidean comment on the uncertain, even collapsing, values of his time.
Text with facing translation, commentary and notes.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1991
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- ISBN:9780856682377
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780856682377
