Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris by Edith Hall
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris provides a rich narrative of the cultural history and influence of an oft-overlooked Euripidean tragedy
In this superb and richly detailed study, Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris, Edith Hall has orchestrated, with impassioned and assiduous attention, this remarkable afterlife of Iphigenia* Marina Warner, The Times Literary Supplement *
Here, with patient elucidation and deep reading, she advocates the qualities of a work over a longue durée, and calls us to rethink the very character and acope of tragedy. * Marina Warner, The Times Literary Supplement *
[we are] delighted to award the Goodwin Prize to Edith Hall, in honor of Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy, with its promise of a present and future for the inescapable, and inescapably intrepid, classical past. * Judges comments, Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2014 *
Here, with patient elucidation and deep reading, she advocates the qualities of a work over a longue durée, and calls us to rethink the very character and acope of tragedy. * Marina Warner, The Times Literary Supplement *
[we are] delighted to award the Goodwin Prize to Edith Hall, in honor of Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy, with its promise of a present and future for the inescapable, and inescapably intrepid, classical past. * Judges comments, Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2014 *
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780195392890 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195392892 |
| Title | Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris |
| Author | Edith Hall |
| Series | Onassis Series In Hellenic Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2013-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2014. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |