Rhesos / / Euripides ; translated by Richard Emil Braun
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| Titolo: |
Rhesos / / Euripides ; translated by Richard Emil Braun
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (112 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 882/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rhesus (Legendary character) |
| Trojan War | |
| Altri autori: |
Euripides
BraunRichard Emil <1934->
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| Note generali: | Translation of: Rhesus. |
| First published in 1978 by Oxford University Press. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Rhesos""; ""Notes on the Text""; ""Glossary" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rhesos |
| ISBN: | 0-19-972963-8 |
| 1-280-44138-0 | |
| 1-4237-3522-6 | |
| 1-60129-861-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783375403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Greek tragedy in new translations.