Orestes
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Orestes
(Classical texts, . The plays of Euripides)
Aris & Phillips, c1987
- : pbk
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Note
Translation of: Oresteia
Bibliography: p. 47-53
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
General Editor's Foreword
Author's Preface
Author's Postscript 2005
Updated General Bibliography
Introduction to Orestes
I. Orestes in the Development of Tragedy
II. The Story
III. Literary Sources and Models
IV. Characters, Ethics, Contemporary Background
V. Production
VI. From Euripides' Text to Ours
Notes to Introduction to Orestes
Bibliography to Orestes
Abbreviations
Sigla
Text and Translation
Commentary
Index
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