Rhesos.
The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been los...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780199729630 0199729638 1280441380 9781280441387 1423735226 9781423735229 1601298617 9781601298614 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been lost. In this exciting translation, Rhesos is no longer treated as a derivative Euripidean work, but rather as the tightly-knit tragedy of knowledge it really is. A drama in which profound problems of fate and free will come alive, Rhesos is also an exploration of the perversion of values that come as the r. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (112 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Greek tragedy in new translations.
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| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |