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UNINA9910450437903321 |
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Titolo |
Rhesos [[electronic resource] /] / Euripides ; translated by Richard Emil Braun |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-972963-8 |
1-280-44138-0 |
1-4237-3522-6 |
1-60129-861-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (112 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Greek tragedy in new translations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Euripides |
BraunRichard Emil <1934-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rhesus (Legendary character) |
Trojan War |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: Rhesus. |
First published in 1978 by Oxford University Press. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Rhesos""; ""Notes on the Text""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""D""; ""E""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""Z"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been lost. In this exciting translation, Rhesos is no longer treated as a derivative Euripidean work, but rather as the tightly-knit tragedy of knowledge it really is. A drama in which profound problems of fate and free will come alive, Rhesos is also an exploration of the perversion of values that come as the r |
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