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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798437703321

Autore

Ringer Mark

Titolo

Euripides and the boundaries of the human / / Mark Ringer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-1844-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

882/.01

Soggetti

Euripides - Criticism and interpretation

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Rhesus (date unknown. 454-440 B.C.?); Chapter Three: Alcestis (438 B.C.); Chapter Four: Medea (431 B.C.); Chapter Five: The Children of Heracles (Heraclidae, ca. 430 B.C.); Chapter Six: Hippolytus (428 B.C.); Chapter Seven: Andromache (ca. 425 B.C.); Chapter Eight: Hecuba (ca. 424 B.C.); Chapter Nine: The Suppliant Women (ca. 423 B.C.); Chapter Ten: Electra (ca. 420 B.C.); Chapter Eleven: Trojan Women, Part of The "Trojan" Tetralogy (415 B.C.); Chapter Twelve: Heracles (ca. 415 B.C.)

Chapter Thirteen: Iphigenia among the Taurians (ca. 414 B.C.)Chapter Fourteen: Ion (ca. 414 B.C.); Chapter Fifteen: Helen (412 B.C.); Chapter Sixteen: The Phoenician Women (ca. 410 B.C.); Chapter Seventeen: Orestes (408 B.C.); Chapter Eighteen: The Cyclops (date unknown: 408 B.C.?); Chapter Nineteen: Iphigenia in Aulis (presented posthumously in 405 B.C.); Chapter Twenty: The Bacchae (presented posthumously in 405 B.C.); Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human offers the first single-volume detailed reading of the nineteen canonical Euripidean plays in nearly fifty years. The dramas are examined not only in their diversity but also for the themes and ideas that bind them together as the work of a single remarkable playwright.