Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis: Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) - Softcover

Euripides; Collard, Christopher; Morwood, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911226479 ISBN 13: 9781911226475

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This is the first English edition with commentary of the play since 1891. Euripides died before completing this late masterpiece and it was prepared for its enthusiastically received first performance by his son or nephew. Over the centuries other hands have contributed to the text we now have but even so for the most part it shows Euripides at his finest. After Agamemnon has discovered that the Trojan War can only be fought if he sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia, we witness the break-down of the most dysfunctional family in Greek mythology.

The characters are expressively and movingly etched; their confrontations are charted with unsurpassed dramatic power; their shifts and changes can take the breath away, especially Iphigenia's transformation from desperate pleading to a heroic acceptance of her tragic destiny.

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About the Author

James Morwood is Dean of Wadham College, Oxford, translator of eleven of Euripides' plays in the World Classics Series, author of numerous Greek and Latin language books and of The Life and Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1985). James Morwood is Dean of Wadham College, Oxford, translator of eleven of Euripides' plays in the World Classics Series, author of numerous Greek and Latin language books and of The Life and Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1985).

Christopher Collard was Professor of Classics at the University of Swansea until 1996 and has published widely on tragedy and scholars of tragedy. His work includes editions with commentary of Euripides, Suppliant Women (1975, 1984) and Hecuba (1991), and he is co-editor of Selected Fragmentary Plays of Euripides (1995, 2004).

Review

"The thoroughness of the editors' work is manifest (and laudable) throughout, with 'much discussion of plot, characters and dramaturgy'...This has been a labour of love (and on a Heraclean scale) for the editors, who deserve our thanks and congratulations." --Colin Leach, Classics for All

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911226479
• ISBN 13: 9781911226475
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656