Rhesos (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 13 December 2011 |
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Rhesos (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been lost. In this exciting translation, Rhesos is no longer treated as a derivative Euripidean work, but rather as the tightly-knit tragedy of knowledge it really is. A drama in which profound problems of fate and free will come alive, Rhesos is also an exploration of the perversion of values that come as the result of war. |
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Tags: Rhesos, tragedy, drama, Greek, knowledge |