The Complete Euripides Volume 4 : Bacchae and Other Plays

Informationen zum Autor Peter Burian is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies, at Duke University. Alan Shapiro is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Klappentext This volume collects Euripides' Bacchae, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated mythical figures; and The Phoenician Women, a disturbing interpretation of the fate of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and will adda single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

Product details

• Authors: Peter (EDT)/ Shapiro Burian, Euripides
• Assisted by: Peter Burian (Editor), Alan Shapiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2009
• EAN: 9780195373264
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537326-4
• Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translati; Greek Tragedy in New Translations
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature