Odysseus at Troy, 9781585103966
Paperback
English translations of three plays centered around the mythological theme of the Greek hero, Odysseus: Sophocles’ “Ajax” and Euripides’ “Hecuba,” and “Trojan Women” . All three plays are complete with notes and interpretive essays, an introduction to the ancient Greek theater and an essay on ‘Odysseus on Stage’.

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    14 August 2010

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Summary

This book contains translations of three plays:Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. They are all centered around the mythological theme of the Greek warrior, Odysseus, hero of the Trojan War. All three plays are complete, with notes and introductions, plus an introduction to the volume with background to the story which was one of the most popular themes and one of the most written about Greek hero in Greek literature.

Written during a tumultuous age of sophists and demagogues, these thre…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781585103966
ISBN-10:1585103969
Author:Euripides, Sophocles, Stephen Esposito, Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Diskin Clay
Publisher:Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Imprint:Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Edition:2nd
Release Date:14 August 2010
Weight:427g
Dimensions:229mm x 153mm x 17mm
Series:Focus Classical Library
About The Author

Euripides

Stephen Esposito is Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University where, in 2009⁄10, he won Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Teaching Excellence. He has previously translated Euripides’ “Bacchae” and edited “Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae”, both for Focus Publishing. He is also the founding editor of the new Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries, the first volume of which will be his grammatical commentary (with running vocabulary) on Sophocles’ “Oedipus Tyrannos”.

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