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Euripides: Troades
Contributor(s): Euripides (Author), Lee, Kevin Hargreaves

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 ISBN: 1853991864     ISBN-13: 9781853991868
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
OUR PRICE: $41.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1998
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Annotation: With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women and children on the losing side, Euripides??? Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek tragedies. It was first produced in 415 BC just after the Athenians??? slaughter of the male population of Melos and at the point where they were sending out the ambitious Sicilian expedition. It therefore has major contemporary political significance. Like Aeschylus??? Eumenides, it was performed as the third play in a thematically linked trilogy and, though the other two plays survive only in fragments, important inferences can be drawn about our interpretation of the surviving play and Euripides??? use of the trilogy form.Lee??'s edition, first published in the famous "red Macmillan" series in 1976, is the most recent scholarly edition in English. The detailed commentary discusses text, language, interpretation and metre; there is a full introduction and for this paperback edition Lee has added an up-to-date bibliography.

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BISAC Categories:
- Drama
Dewey: 882.01
Age Level: 22
Grade Level: 17
Series: Bcp Classic Latin and Greek Texts in Paperback
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.05" W x 7.24" L (0.75 lbs) 268 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women
and children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of the
most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek tragedies. It was
first produced in 415 BC just after the Athenians slaughter of the male
population of Melos and at the point where they were sending out the
ambitious Sicilian expedition. It therefore has major contemporary
political significance. Like Aeschylus Eumenides, it was performed as
the third play in a thematically linked trilogy and, though the other
two plays survive only in fragments, important inferences can be drawn
about our interpretation of the surviving play and Euripides use of the
trilogy form. Lee s edition, first published in the famous red
Macmillan series in 1976, is the most recent scholarly edition in
English. The detailed commentary discusses text, language,
interpretation and metre; there is a full introduction and for this
paperback edition Lee has added an up-to-date bibliography.
 
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