Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy

Informationen zum Autor Thalia Papadopoulou is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Ioannina. Klappentext This book explores the complex questions about divinity and human values examined in Euripides' Heracles. Zusammenfassung Euripides' Heracles is a play of great complexity! tracing its protagonist's development from invincible hero to the courageous bearer of suffering. This work places the play in the context of Euripidean drama! Greek dramaturgy and fifth-century Athenian society. It also explores the play's examination of divinity and human values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Ritual and violence; 2. Madness and the gods; 3. Arete and the image of Athens; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Thalia Papadopoulou, Thalia (University of Ioannina Papadopoulou, TBD
• Assisted by: P. E. Easterling (Editor), M. K. Hopkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2005
• EAN: 9780521851268
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85126-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Antiquity; Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker