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Euripides: Alcestis (Hardcover, New)
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Euripides: Alcestis (Hardcover, New)
Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
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In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to
save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is presented with the
opportunity to have someone die in his place. Alcestis compresses
within itself both tragedy and its apparent reversal, staging in
the process fascinating questions about gender roles, family
loyalties, the nature of heroism, and the role of commemoration.
Alcestis is Euripides's earliest complete work and his only
surviving play from the period preceding the outbreak of the
Peloponnesian War. Currently dominant post-structuralist models of
Greek tragedy focus on its 'oppositional' role in the discourse of
war and public values. This study challenges not only this
politicised model of tragic discourse but also both traditional
masculinist and more recent feminist readings of the discourse and
performance of gender in this remarkable play. The play survived in
the performance repertoire of antiquity into the Roman period.
Euripides' version strongly influenced the reception of the myth
through the middles ages into the Renaissance, and the story
enjoyed a lively afterlife through opera. Alcestis' contested
reception in the last two centuries charts our changing
understanding of tragedy. Niall Slater's study explores the
reception and afterlife of the play, as well as its main themes,
the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context
and the central developments in modern criticism.
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