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Author : Euripides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521191258
A new interpretation of a Greek tragedy on the fall of Troy: do violence, war and slavery make people less human?
Author : Luigi Battezzato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108546706
Hecuba was the most widely read play of Euripides from antiquity to the Renaissance, appealing to readers and spectators for its controversial treatment of moral themes: revenge, war and slavery, violence, human sacrifice, gender and ethnic relations. It narrates the death of Hecuba's daughter Polyxena, sacrificed by the Greeks to placate the ghost of Achilles, and that of her son Polydorus, killed out of greed by the Thracian king who was supposed to protect him. Hecuba successfully plots a cruel and shocking revenge against the killer. The play is now at the centre of the attention of scholars and performing artists. This edition offers new textual and interpretive suggestions, and provides detailed guidance on problems of language as well as employing conceptual tools from contemporary linguistics. It will be useful for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, as well as of interest to scholars.
Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472569097
Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses.
Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472569080
Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585104345
This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Hecuba about Hecuba's grief over her daughter and son’s deaths and the revenge she enacts over her son’s death. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture. Euripides’ Hecuba is one of the few tragedies that evoke a sense of utter desolation and destruction in the audience. The drama focuses on the status of women, those who are out of power and at the margins of society, by enacting the sufferings of Hecuba. With the city of Troy fallen, Hecuba and Polyxena, her daughter, are enslaved to Agamemnon. Hecuba is despondent with the news that Polyxena is chosen to be sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles. After the sacrifice, the body of her son Polydorus, already a ghost at the start of the drama, is discovered. Polymestor, a king in Thrace who Hecuba sent Polydorus to for safety reasons, murdered Polydorus for his gold. With the tacit complicity of Agamemnon, Hecuba plots her revenge against Polymestor. What transpires next has lasting implications for all involved, including a dramatic trial scene and Hecuba’s ultimate metamorphosis.
Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004435353
Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.
Author : Judith Mossman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106011588552
This book, first full-length study of this often undervalued play, argues for a new appreciation of the power of its rhetoric, the subtlety of its characterization, and the beauty of its choral odes. Mossman also traces the powerful influence of Hecuba in the Renaissance, and compares the play with English revenge tragedies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author : Euripides,Justina Gregory
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Hecuba (Legendary character)
ISBN : IND:30000067178388
This student's edition of Hecuba prepared by Justina Gregory offers the first modern, full-length commentary suitable for classroom use. It includes an introduction, appendix on lyric meters, bibliography, and index.
Author : John Delap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1762
Category : Hecuba (Legendary character)
ISBN : NYPL:33433112031996
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001150878
Author : Sophocles,Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585106516
This book contains translations of three plays:Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. They are all centered around the mythological theme of the Greek warrior, Odysseus, hero of the Trojan War. All three plays are complete, with notes and introductions, plus an introduction to the volume with background to the story which was one of the most popular themes and one of the most written about Greek hero in Greek literature. Written during a tumultuous age of sophists and demagogues, these three plays (c. 450-425 BCE) bear witness to the gradual degradation of Odysseus’ character. In presenting the unexpected devolution of a renowned mythic figure, the plays examine numerous themes relevant to contemporary American political life: the profound psychological consequences of brought on by the stress of war and why a once proud and noble warrior might commit suicide; and the dehumanizing darkness that descends upon innocent female war-victims when victors use act on false political necessity.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Mythology, Greek
ISBN : UGA:32108002997610
Author : Euripides,John Bond,Arthur Sumner Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B257358
Author : Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1585101486
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571301010
Children, lead this old woman outside. A slave like the rest of you, She once was your queen. Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Hecuba, its beloved queen, is widowed and enslaved. She mourns her great city and the death of her husband, but when fresh horrors emerge, her grief turns to rage and a lust for revenge. A savage indictment of the devastation of war, Hecuba is brought to life in this thrillingly visceral new version. Hecuba premièred at the Donmar Warehouse, London in September 2004.
