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Ten Plays by Euripides (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Ten Plays by EuripidesThe first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, E...
Full description- Publisher: Bantam
- Published: 31 March 1999
- Format: Paperback 358 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780553213638 ISBN 10: 0553213636
- Sales rank: 150,972
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Full description for Ten Plays by Euripides
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.
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