Electra and Other Plays
And Other Plays
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
16 July 1998
Summary
Five of Euripides’ boldest and most moving tragedies, all focusing on strong female characters.
Written during a period overshadowed by the fierce struggle for supremacy between Sparta and Euripides’ native Athens, these five plays are haunted by the shadow of war – and in particular its impact on women. In Electra the children of Agamemnon take bloody revenge on their mother for murdering their father after his return from Troy, and Suppliant Women depicts the griev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140446685 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140446680 |
| Author: | Euripides, Richard Rutherford, John Davie |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 16 July 1998 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Euripides
Euripides (c.485-406 BC) was already a controversial figure in his own lifetime, regarded as a ‘clever’ poet, associated with philosophers and intellectuals. He is thought to have written 92 plays, only 18 of which survive.
John Davie was born in Glasgow in 1950, and educated at Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford.
Dr Richard Rutherford was born in Edinburgh in 1956 and has been tutor in Greek & Latin Literature at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982.
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