03761oam 22006974 450 99621487210331620230421032155.00-674-99560-0(CKB)3820000000011993(SSID)ssj0001417979(PQKBManifestationID)11900562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001417979(PQKBWorkID)11386051(PQKB)10088075(OCoLC)899735482(MaCbHUP)hup0000112(EXLCZ)99382000000001199320141025d1994 my dengurcn#|||||txtccrCyclopsAlcestis ; Medea /Euripides ; edited and translated by David KovacsCambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,2014.1 online resourceLoeb Classical Library ; 12Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliography.Cyclops -- Alcestis -- Medea.Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.Euripides of Athens (ca. 485-406 BCE), famous in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations, wrote nearly ninety plays. Of these, eighteen (plus a play of unknown authorship mistakenly included with his works) have come down to us from antiquity. In this first volume of a new Loeb edition of Euripides David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text of three plays and an accurate and graceful translation with explanatory notes. Alcestis is the story of a woman who agrees, in order to save her husband's life, to die in his place. Medea is a tragedy of revenge in which Medea kills her own children, as well as their father's new wife, to punish him for his desertion. The volume begins with Cyclops, a satyr play--the only complete example of this genre to survive. Each play is preceded by an introduction. In a general introduction Kovacs demonstrates that the biographical tradition about Euripides--parts of which view him as a subverter of morality, religion, and art--cannot be relied on. He argues that this tradition has often furnished the unacknowledged starting point for interpretation, and that the way is now clear for an unprejudiced consideration of the plays themselves.Alcestis (Greek mythology)DramaCyclopes (Greek mythology)DramaGreek drama (Tragedy)Translations into EnglishMedea (Greek mythology)DramaGreek drama (Satyr play)(OCoLC)947144fastGreek drama (Tragedy)(OCoLC)947146fastGreek drama(OCoLC)947127fastMythology, Greek(OCoLC)1031804fastMythology, Greek, in literature(OCoLC)1031814fastTragedy(OCoLC)1154355fastGreek dramaAlcestis (Greek mythology)Cyclopes (Greek mythology)Greek drama (Tragedy)Medea (Greek mythology)Greek drama (Satyr play)Greek drama (Tragedy)Greek dramaMythology, GreekMythology, Greek, in literatureTragedy882/.01Euripides229973Kovacs DavidMaCbHUPTLCBOOK996214872103316Cyclops17904UNISA