Euripides: Scenes from Rhesus and Helen (Greek Texts) - Softcover

Euripides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853995657 ISBN 13: 9781853995651

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press, 1998

Synopsis

This school edition, originally published by Macmillan in 1962, was designed for post-beginners and has remained a basic standard text for GCSE or equivalent level students.

Extracts from two plays of Euripides, Rhesus and Helen, are drawn from their iambic sections but interlinked by narrative and the subject matter of the choral lyrics is indicated in such a way as to give an idea of the entire plays.Notes give assistance with language and content, while the introduction covers Greek tragedy in general and questions of metre.There is also a full vocabulary and useful summaries.

About this title

About the Authors

Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC. His first play was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some hundred altogether of which nineteen survive – a greater number than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles combined – and which include Alkestis, Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytos, Ion and Iphigenia at Aulis. He died in 406 BC.

E.C. Kennedy was Classics Master at Malvern College, UK. With A.R. Davis, he co-edited Two Centuries of Roman Poetry, Two Centuries of Roman Prose, and Euripides: Scenes from "Rhesus" and "Helen".


E.C. Kennedy was Classics Master at Malvern College, UK. With A.R. Davis, he co-edited Two Centuries of Roman Poetry, Two Centuries of Roman Prose, and Euripides: Scenes from "Rhesus" and "Helen".

Edition details

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853995657
• ISBN 13: 9781853995651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Kennedy E.C.