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Euripides: Troades - Edited with Introduction and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Euripides: Troades - Edited with Introduction and Commentary (Hardcover)
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This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Troades,
with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that brings
centuries of classical scholarship to bear on a wide variety of
questions. These include the interpretation of the play as part of
a trilogy (its companion plays were Alexandros and Palamedes, of
which we have only fragments), the contribution of the various
scenes, speeches, and choral odes to the play, the style and usage
of Euripides, and the stage action of the original performance.
Since the play was performed in 415, shortly after the Athenian
subjugation of Melos, it has frequently been interpreted as a
criticism of Athenian foreign policy. The Introduction provides
numerous converging arguments against this view and also shows that
those who hold it are forced to ignore a greate deal of the text
and cannot account for the Helen episode. The commentary, in
addition to discussing the topics named above, interrogates the
play's intellectual content, topics such as the nature of human
success, vicissitude in mortal life, and the workings of the gods
in the world, and re-evaluates the way the play's first audience
were meant to react to the worldviews of Hecuba and others. It also
examines carefully all the places where the text is insecure,
places where there are significant variants or where what is
transmitted is open to challenge. The book is written with the
needs of both comparative beginners and seasoned classical scholars
in mind.
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