Euripides: Herakles (Paperback)

In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order . Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power. The play depicts Herakles being driven mad by Hera, the wife of Zeus. Hera hates Herakles because he is one of Zeus' children born of adultery. In his madness, Herakles is driven to murder his own wife and children, and he eventually exiles himself to Athens. The volume includes a new translation, an introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Release date:	2001
First published:	February 2001
Authors:	Euripides
Translators:	Thomas Sleigh (Poet in Residence/ Professor of English) • Christian Wolff (Professor of Classics and Strauss Professor of Music)
Dimensions:	202 x 135 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	122
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513116-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-19-513116-9
Barcode:	9780195131161

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