Euripides
Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior in order to address vital social issues such as sex, class and gender relations. It is perhaps little wonder that his work should find such resonance in the modern day.

In this concise introduction, Isabelle Torrance engages with the thematic, cultural and scholarly difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides remains a figure of perennial relevance. Addressing here issues of social context, performance theory, fifth-century philosophy and religion, textual criticism and reception, the author presents an astute and attractively-written guide to the Euripidean corpus – from the widely read and celebrated Medea to the lesser-known and deeply ambiguous Alcestis.

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Euripides
Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior in order to address vital social issues such as sex, class and gender relations. It is perhaps little wonder that his work should find such resonance in the modern day.

In this concise introduction, Isabelle Torrance engages with the thematic, cultural and scholarly difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides remains a figure of perennial relevance. Addressing here issues of social context, performance theory, fifth-century philosophy and religion, textual criticism and reception, the author presents an astute and attractively-written guide to the Euripidean corpus – from the widely read and celebrated Medea to the lesser-known and deeply ambiguous Alcestis.

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Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior in order to address vital social issues such as sex, class and gender relations. It is perhaps little wonder that his work should find such resonance in the modern day.

In this concise introduction, Isabelle Torrance engages with the thematic, cultural and scholarly difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides remains a figure of perennial relevance. Addressing here issues of social context, performance theory, fifth-century philosophy and religion, textual criticism and reception, the author presents an astute and attractively-written guide to the Euripidean corpus – from the widely read and celebrated Medea to the lesser-known and deeply ambiguous Alcestis.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848856684
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/21/2019
Series: Understanding Classics
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.41(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Isabelle Torrance is Associate Professor of Classics at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes (2007) and of Metapoetry in Euripides (2013), co-author – with A Sommerstein – of Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) and editor of Aeschylus and War: Comparative Perspectives on Seven Against Thebes (2017).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements x

I Life and Works 1

II Spectacular Theatre 27

III Religion and Philosophy 59

IV Rhetoric and Relevance 79

V Literary Sophistication 95

VI Conflicts: Ancient and Modern 117

Conclusion 145

Notes 147

Bibliography 161

Index 175

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