Orestes and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Euripides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199552436 ISBN 13: 9780199552436

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2009

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Book by Euripides Morwood James

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Ion
Orestes
The Phoenician Women
The Suppliant Women

In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and expediency with justice, and the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency.

Ion is a vivid portrait of the role of chance in human life and an exploration of family relationships, which combines a sympathetic portrait of a rape victim with remarks on Athenian xenophobia. In Orestes, the most popular of the tragedian's plays in the ancient world, Euripides explores the emotional consequences of Orestes' murder of his mother on the individuals concerned, and makes the tale resonate with advice to Athens about the threat to democracy posed by political pressure groups. The Suppliant Women is a commentary on the politics of empire, as the Athenian king Theseus decides to use force of arms rather than persuasion against Thebes. The Phoenician Women transforms the terrible conflict between Oedipus' sons into one of the most savage indictments of civil war in Western literature by highlighting the personal tragedy it brings.
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Biografía del autor

Robin Waterfield is the acclaimed translator of Plato's Republic in OWC, and other classical works including two volumes of Plutarch's Lives and Herodotus' Histories. He is the author of a biography of Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet, Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1998)

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199552436
• ISBN 13: 9780199552436
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Morwood James