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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
Euripides
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Description for The Trojan Women and Other Plays
Paperback. First published as an Oxford's Classics paperback: 2001. Translator(s): Morwood, James. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times ... Read more
Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538812
SKU
V9780199538812
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Reviews for The Trojan Women and Other Plays
I imagine that everyone who teaches Greek tragedy in translation entertains a mental wish list for the ideal classroom text. . . . The volume under review, the third in a series of translations of selected plays of Euripides by the team of James Morwood and Edith Hall, comes closer to meeting these criteria than any other with which I ... Read more