Hecuba, Trojan Women, Andromache - Euripides .

Hecuba, Trojan Women, Andromache

By: Euripides ., James Morwood (Editor)

Hardcover | 15 February 2001

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This is the final in a series of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays. In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battle-ground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in the Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. And in her name play Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and
men during war.
Industry Reviews
`Morwood has a flair for plain, straightforward language ... the level of accuracy is high. This is a translation that I shall definitely be ordering for my classes.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review `Hall's stylish introduction covers a good deal of ground ... and offers an up-to-date Euripides with its attention to reception and the status of women and slaves as well as to more traditional topics such as Euripides and Athens and Euripides and religion.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review `The volume is rich in connections and contrasts ... also generous with supplementary material' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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