Euripides: Orestes by M L West

Euripides: Orestes by M L West

If not the profoundest of Greek tragedies, Orestes is certainly one of the most exuberant and entertaining. Euripides stands traditional legend on its head to forge a melodrama full of varied action, emotion, and novel theatrical effects, with a succession of crises crowned by a spectacular happy ending. Produced in 408 B.C., the play marks the culmination of Euripides' development, and in antiquity it surpassed all other tragedies in popularity. No study of Greek drama should neglect it. For this volume, Professor West has prepared a new edition of the Greek text with a selective apparatus. Greek text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.

"West's introduction is full of interest and penetrative insight"
London Association of Classical Teachers (LACT)
"Strongly recommended."
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The late M. L. West was Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. A distinguished classical scholar, his many publications include The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford University Press, 1997), Indo-European Poetry and Myth (OUP, 2007), as well as editions of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus, the Iliad, and the Greek iambic and elegiac poets.

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ISBN 13	9780856683114
ISBN 10	0856683116
Titel	Euripides: Orestes
Autor	M L West
Serie	Aris And Phillips Classical Texts
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1987-01-01
Seitenanzahl	288
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