عنوان

Trojan women /

(Number (ISBN

0199705321

(Number (ISBN

1281925632

(Number (ISBN

6611925635

(Number (ISBN

9780199705320

(Number (ISBN

9781281925633

(Number (ISBN

9786611925635

Erroneous ISBN

0195179102

Erroneous ISBN

0195374932

Erroneous ISBN

9780195179101

Erroneous ISBN

9780195374933

Number

b738950

Title Proper

Trojan women /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Euripides ; translated by Alan Shapiro ; with introduction and notes by Peter Burian.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (v, 113 pages)

Series Title

Greek tragedy in new translations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (page 113).

Text of Note

Introduction -- On the translation -- Trojan women -- Notes on the text -- Glossary -- For further reading.

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Text of Note

"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's introduction and notes." "Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world from his." "The theme is really a double one: the suffering of the victims of war, exemplified by the woman who survive the fall of Troy, and the degradation of the victors, shown by the Greeks' reckless and ultimately self-destructive behavior. It offers an enduring picture of human fortitude in the midst of despair. Trojan Women gains special relevance, of course, in times of war. It presents a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty, but one that is also rooted in considerations of power and policy, morality and expedience. Furthermore, the seductions of power and the dangers both of its exercise and of resistance to it as portrayed in Trojan Women are not simply philosophical or rhetorical gambits but part of the lived experience of Euripides' day."--Jacket.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

MIL

Stock Number

192563

Title

Trojan women.

International Standard Book Number

9780195179101

General Material Designation

Trojan women.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Hecuba

Hecuba

Queens-- Turkey-- Troy (Extinct city), Drama.

Trojan War, Drama.

Queens.

Turkey, Troy (Extinct city)

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Euripides.

Burian, Peter,1943-

Shapiro, Alan,1952-

Date of Transaction

20201203235955.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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