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Electra and Other Plays: Euripides

By Euripides, John Davie (Translator), Richard Rutherford (Introduction), Richard Rutherford (Noted by)
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By Euripides, John Davie (Translator), Richard Rutherford (Introduction), Richard Rutherford (Noted by)
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Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors.

Written in the period from 426 to 415 BC, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens and Sparta, these five plays are haunted by the horrors of war – and its particular impact on w...

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