Heraclidae With Introduction and Commentary

Name: Heraclidae With Introduction and Commentary
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ISBN: 9780198147589

ISBN-10: 0198147589

ISBN-13: 9780198147589

Edition: 1993

Authors: Euripides, John Wilkins, Euripides

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This edition and commentary provides an invaluable introduction to one of Euripides' less well-known plays, and describes the enormous value 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. Not even 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…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/29/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.81" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English