Suppliant women : Electra ; Heracles / Euripides ; edited and translated by David Kovacs.

Author/creator Euripides author.
Other author Kovacs, David, editor, translator.
Format Electronic
PublicationCambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL009/1998/volume.xml
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SeriesLoeb Classical Library ; 9
Loeb classical library ; 9. ^A467228
Abstract 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. One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, are four of his plays. Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. Euripides's Electra--presenting the famous legend of a brother and sister who seek revenge on their mother for killing their father--is a portrayal interestingly different from that of Aeschylus or Sophocles. Heracles shows the malice of the gods--and mutual loyalty as the human response to divinely sent disaster. David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text and a new translation that, in the words of Greece and Rome, is "close to the Greek and reads fluently and well."
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web.
LanguageText in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Euripides. Suppliant women. Electra. Heracles. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998 9780674995666
Other titleElectra.
Other titleHeracles.
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