Suppliant Women by Euripides
Already tested in performance on the stage, this translation shows for the first time in English the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' Suppliant Women. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures with unremitting force the competing poles of the human psyche. The translators, Rosanna Warren and Stephen Scully, extenuate the contrasting tonalities in counterpoint of female lament and male reasoned discourse in this play where the silent dead hold, finally, centre stage.
the Introduction, giving an attractive, coherent and persuasivly-argued interpretation well-supported from the text and amply furnished with helpful references to critical bibliography, is a definite strong point * Susanna Phillippo, University of Oxford, The Classical Review, VolXLVI, No. 2 '96 *
bout the Editors: Rosanna Warren is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Boston University and Poetry Consultant for the Partisan Review. Stephen Scully is Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195045536 |
| ISBN 10 | 019504553X |
| Title | Suppliant Women |
| Author | Euripides |
| Series | Greek Tragedy In New Translations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1995-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 94 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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