Electra and Other Plays Euripides Greek Tragedy Classical Drama Ancient academic Rich with insight and scholarly

Rich with insight and scholarly reflection

large folio (61 x 36 cm)

Moorey's insightful examination

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Electra and Other Plays Euripides Greek Tragedy Classical Drama Ancient academic Rich with insight and scholarlyEuripides, 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