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This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its 'subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus
• Author: Euripides
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 282
• EAN: 9780198150947
• ISBN: 0198150946
• ID: 04522185
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 144 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 1999

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