Euripides Alcestis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199254668)

Alcestis is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant--as well as most controversial--plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no annotated edition in English has appeared for more than fifty years. The present work is designed to aid close reading and to serve as an introduction to the serious study of the play in its various aspects. The introduction covers the background to the story in myth and folktale, its treatment by other writers from antiquity to the present, the critical reception of Euripides' play, and its textual transmission and meters. The notes are designed in particular to help readers who have been learning Greek for a relatively short time. More advanced matter, such as discussion of textual problems, is placed in square brackets at the end of the note.

Author: L. P. E. Parker
ISBN-10: 0199254664
ISBN-13: 9780199254668
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2007
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d