Suppliant Women

ISBN-13: 9780195045536 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 96 str.

Euripides; Rosanna Warren; Stephen Scully

Opis

This translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' 'Suppliant Women'. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures the competing poles of the human psyche.

Recenzje

the Introduction, giving an attractive, coherent and persuasivly-argued interpretation well-supported from the text and amply furnished with helpful references to critical bibliography, is a definite strong point