Hecuba, Trojan Women, Andromache - Hardcover

Euripides

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198150938 ISBN 13: 9780198150930

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This is the final in a series of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays. In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battle-ground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in the Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. And in her name play Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.

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About the Author

Euripides (c. 480-406 BCE) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. James Morwood is a Grocyn Lecturer. Edith Hall is at Somerville College, Oxford.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0198150938
• ISBN 13: 9780198150930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216