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出版社:BANTAM BOOKS
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ISBN:0553213636
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作者:Euripides著
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頁數:358
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出版日期:2000-11-29
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印刷日期:1981-10-01
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包裝:平裝
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版次:2
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印次:1
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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.This volume includes all of Euripides' most important plays in brilliant modern prose translations by Moses Hadas and John McLean, and with an introduction by Moses Hadas.
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EURIPIDES (approximately 485-406 B.C.) was the youngest of the
great triad of Greek tragic poets; but so rapid was the
efflorescence of tragedy that he was adult when Aeschylus was
producing his greatest plays, and was himself survived by the
nonagenarian Sophocles. Because the three were so close in time,
because Greek literary art like Greek architecture tended to
preserve forms once perfected, and most of all because the
religious origins and associations of tragedy dictated at least
formal adherence to traditional usages, there is a superficial
sameness about the productions of all three.Their themes are drawn
from the same body of myth, their dramatis personae axe often
identical, their stage conventions of actors and chorus, costume
and scenery, axe the same, and there is the same pattern of
episodes of dialogue in iambic meter separated from one another by
elaborate choral stasima in lyric meters. A near-sighted reader
leafing through a volume of collected plays could not quickly
identify their authors.
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INTRODUCTION, by Moses HADAS ALCESTIS HIPPOLYTUS ANDROMACHE ION TROJAN WOMEN ELECTRA IPHIGERIA AMONG THE TAURIANS THE BACCHANTS IPHIGENIA AT AULIS GLOSSARY OF PROPER NAMES
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