Euripides: Hecuba Paperback / softback
Edited by Luigi (Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro) Battezzato
Part of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Hecuba was the most widely read play of Euripides from antiquity to the Renaissance, appealing to readers and spectators for its controversial treatment of moral themes: revenge, war and slavery, violence, human sacrifice, gender and ethnic relations.
It narrates the death of Hecuba's daughter Polyxena, sacrificed by the Greeks to placate the ghost of Achilles, and that of her son Polydorus, killed out of greed by the Thracian king who was supposed to protect him.
Hecuba successfully plots a cruel and shocking revenge against the killer.
The play is now at the centre of the attention of scholars and performing artists.
This edition offers new textual and interpretive suggestions, and provides detailed guidance on problems of language as well as employing conceptual tools from contemporary linguistics.
It will be useful for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, as well as of interest to scholars.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/01/2018
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- ISBN:9780521138642
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/01/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521138642
