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  title info:
    title: Troades
  name:
    name part: Euripides
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kovacs, David
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction,
    role:
      role term: writer of commentary.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: drama
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: grc
  language:
    language term: grc
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 370 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Troades, with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that brings centuries of classical scholarship to bear on a wide variety of questions. These include the interpretation of the play as part of a trilogy (its companion plays were Alexandros and Palamedes, of which we have only fragments), the contribution of the various scenes, speeches and choral odes to the play, the style and usage of Euripides and the stage action of the original performance. Since the play was performed in 415, shortly after the Athenian subjugation of Melos, it has frequently been interpreted as a criticism of Athenian foreign policy. The Introduction provides numerous converging arguments against this view and also shows that those who hold it are forced to ignore a great deal of the text and cannot account for the Helen episode. The commentary, in addition to discussing the topics named above, interrogates the play's intellectual content, topics such as the nature of human success, vicissitude in mortal life and the workings of the gods in the world and reevaluates the way the play's first audience were meant to react to the worldviews of Hecuba and others. It also examines carefully all the places where the text is insecure, places where there are significant variants or where what is transmitted is open to challenge. The book is written with the needs of both comparative beginners and seasoned classical scholars in mind.
  note: Euripides ; edited with introduction and commentary by David Kovacs.
  note: Text in English and ancient Greek.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-362) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Euripides
  subject:
    topic: Trojan War
    topic: Women
    genre: Drama
  classification: 882.01
  identifier: 9780199296156
  identifier: 0199296154
  identifier: 2017963195
  record info:
    record content source: STF
    record creation date: 180927
    record change date: 20190718163426.0
    record identifier: in00004076777