Euripides: Children of Heracles
$87.10
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2021
Summary
This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides’ Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles’ family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350193871 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350193879 |
| Author: | Florence Yoon |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
| Series: | Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy |
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Critics Review
Yoon opens up this play’s neglected riches in crisp, lucid, and precise prose. * Greece & Rome *With [an] earnest and well-executed plea for readers and theatre-goers to appreciate this relatively neglected play for what it has to offer rather than succumb to the weight of a long, but receding, history of negative critical reception, Yoon fulfils the aims of a Bloomsbury Companion admirably. * The Classical Review *
About The Author
Florence Yoon
Florence Yoon is Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy (2012).
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