Euripides: 'Helen'

By:

* Euripides

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

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This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife (not an adulteress) who went to Egypt (not to Troy), Euripides' 'new Helen' skilfully transforms and supplants earlier currents of literature and myth. The Introduction elucidates Euripides' treatment of Helen and sets the play in its wider intellectual context. It also discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing how later artists have responded to Euripides' unorthodox heroine and her phantom double. The Commentary's notes on language and style are intended to make Helen fully accessible to readers of Greek at all levels, while the edition as a whole is designed for use by anyone with an interest in Greek tragedy.

Author Biography:

William Allan is McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at University College, Oxford

Release date Australia

February 21st, 2008

Author

* Euripides

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Edited by William Allan

Pages

386

Series

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Dimensions

140x216x22

ISBN-13

9780521836906

Product ID

2161899

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