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Heraclidae (Paperback, Revised)
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Heraclidae (Paperback, Revised)
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This edition and commentary provides an invaluable introduction to
one of Euripides' less well-known plays, and describes the
enormousvalue of the text for our understanding of Athenian drama,
religion,and society. Heraclidae is one of Euripides'
`alphabetical' plays, preserved exclusively in a Laurentian
manuscript, and therefore not selected in antiquity. Neither in
modern times, despite the excellent commentaries of Elmsley (1821)
and Pearson (1907), and powerful articles by Wilamwitz, has the
play been given the prominence it deserves. This edition interprets
the play in a wide cultural setting, considering unorthodox aspects
of the structure of the drama, but placing particular emphasis on
the cults and myths of Heracles in Attica, on his apotheosis and
marriage, on his association with the young, and most of all on the
two most striking rituals in the play: the voluntary self-sacrifice
of the daughter of Heracles, and the conversion of Eurystheus from
an enemy of Athens to a hero whose dead body will protect the
city-state. The text is James Diggle's (Oxford Classical Texts
1984)
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