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Record Nr.

UNISA996211849903316

Autore

Hall Edith

Titolo

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris : a cultural history of Euripides' Black Sea tragedy / / Edith Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013]

ISBN

0-19-997925-1

0-19-539289-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations, maps)

Collana

Onassis series in Hellenic culture Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris

Disciplina

882/.01

Soggetti

Languages & Literatures

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings and exquisite poetry - these features have historically made Euripides' 'Iphigenia in Tauris' one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. With this book, Edith Hall provides a much-needed cultural history of this play, giving as much weight to the impact of the play on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature as on its manifestations since the discovery of the sole surviving medieval manuscript in the 1500s.