CONTENTS: Basics - Female Intruders - Male Heroes - The House of Atreus and the Trojan War - Aristophanes and the City of Athens - Two Tragedies Dealing with Events in History - Euripides' Late Tragicomedies - Menander, Plautus, Terence.
Brian Arkins is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, and at University College, Dublin. He is the author of 12 books of criticism, including 3 on Latin poetry and 2 on Yeats. Dr Arkins has written 2 books on drama: Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy, and What Shakespeare Stole from Rome. He is one of the Directors of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies in Athens.