LEADER 03761oam 22006974 450 001 996214872103316 005 20230421032155.0 010 $a0-674-99560-0 035 $a(CKB)3820000000011993 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001417979 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11900562 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001417979 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11386051 035 $a(PQKB)10088075 035 $a(OCoLC)899735482 035 $a(MaCbHUP)hup0000112 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000011993 100 $a20141025d1994 my d 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCyclops$eAlcestis ; Medea /$fEuripides ; edited and translated by David Kovacs 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aLoeb Classical Library ; $v12 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 320 $aIncludes bibliography. 327 $aCyclops -- Alcestis -- Medea. 330 $aEuripides (c. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.$bEuripides 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. 606 $aAlcestis (Greek mythology)$vDrama 606 $aCyclopes (Greek mythology)$vDrama 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy)$vTranslations into English 606 $aMedea (Greek mythology)$vDrama 606 $aGreek drama (Satyr play)$3(OCoLC)947144$2fast 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy)$3(OCoLC)947146$2fast 606 $aGreek drama$3(OCoLC)947127$2fast 606 $aMythology, Greek$3(OCoLC)1031804$2fast 606 $aMythology, Greek, in literature$3(OCoLC)1031814$2fast 606 $aTragedy$3(OCoLC)1154355$2fast 610 0 $aGreek drama 615 0$aAlcestis (Greek mythology) 615 0$aCyclopes (Greek mythology) 615 0$aGreek drama (Tragedy) 615 0$aMedea (Greek mythology) 615 7$aGreek drama (Satyr play) 615 7$aGreek drama (Tragedy) 615 7$aGreek drama 615 7$aMythology, Greek 615 7$aMythology, Greek, in literature 615 7$aTragedy 676 $a882/.01 700 $aEuripides$0229973 702 $aKovacs$b David 801 0$bMaCbHUP 801 2$bTLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996214872103316 996 $aCyclops$917904 997 $aUNISA