Suppliant women ; Electra ; Heracles /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ευριπίδης 480-406 (συγγραφέας.)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kovacs, David (επιμελητής, μεταφραστής.)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English; Ancient Greek
• Έκδοση: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1998.
• Σειρά: Loeb Classical Library 9.
• Θέματα: Ηρακλής (Ελληνική μυθολογία) > Δράμα.; Ηλέκτρα (Μυθολογία) > Δράμα.; Μυθολογία, Ελληνική > Δράμα.; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία; Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία)

 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."