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In this often neglected play, Euripides explores the contrast
between myth and reality by portraying the story of Heracles'
murder of his wife and children. In treating this act the dramatist
explores the boundaries of madness and Heracles' painful emergence
from this state to a bitter realisation of what he has done. A
further contrast is drawn between the callous gods who cause the
madness and the caring and loving support of human friends and
remaining family (Theseus and Amphitryon). This edition attempts to
bring out the human and psychological qualities in the play and to
defend its structure and dramatic power, arguing that it is neither
"a grotesque abortion" (Swinburne) nor "broken-backed" (Murray) but
a coherent and exciting work. Greek text with facing-page English
translation, introduction and commentary.
Trojan Women is very much a play for our times. Strongly against
war, it shows its aftermath through the eyes of a group of women,
members of the Trojan royal household. They have experienced
displacement, degradation and deprivation as their city has been
sacked by the Greeks. The play expresses their protest, their
articulation of grief, their reflection upon the world they now
find themselves in, one in which the more they suffer the more
their love for each other and for the family they have lost is
strengthened. Trojan Women is concentrated in its emotive power and
its uniquely lyric quality and it is not without the irony either
that the positions of victors and vanquished are not always as
fixed or as irreversible as they seem. Greek text with facing-page
English translation, introduction and commentary.
These are paperback editions of important works on Greek and Roman
literature, history, philosophy and archaeology. New introductions
bring the works up to date in the light of more recent scholarship.
In "The Imagery of Euripides," Shirley Barlow demonstrates, by a
close analysis of Euripides' use of language and of imagery in
particular, that his imaginative powers differ in kind, not just in
quality, from those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and that they serve
a different purpose in the structure of the plays. This third
edition includes a substantial new foreword by the eminent
classical scholar Froma I. Zeitlin and substantial new introduction
by the author. This classic study should have a place on the shelf
of every student of Greek tragedy.
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