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Chargement... 3 Plays: Helen / Orestes / Phoenician Womenpar Euripides
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Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Apologies to Mr. Way if that's an overstatement. Anyhoo, the LCL has done a good job here. I had no particular reason for starting with Volume 5, apart from the fact that I'd heard ages ago that Orestes was a pretty messed-up play, and 'messed-up' is a surefire descriptor to pique ol' Peerts's interest.
I did not find Orestes to be _particularly_ aberrant -- though it was intriguing that other characters in this play treat Orestes' visions of the Erinyes/Eumenides as just that -- visions, rather than actual entities. Apparently the play constructs its own vivid and peculiar version of the events succeeding Orestes' slaying of his mother and Aegisthus -- perhaps this is what puts it in the 'messed up' slot.
Greek tragedy is not an area where I claim any expertise. I've read a number of the familiar plays: Oedipus, the Oresteia, etc., The Bacchae. The three plays in this volume are interesting for the myths they relate or just kind of make up. I found The Phoenician Women particularly enjoyable, since it filled in some of the holes in my knowledge of the story of Antigone. Good notes and introductions. ( )