Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art. Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early …
"'Revenge is a kind of wild justice ... ' (Francis Bacon). Euripides' & quot;Hecuba & quot; is dominated by the vengeance which Hecuba takes on the faithless Polymestor, and explores in a complex and profound manner the potential for revenge as a subject for tragedy. The sacrifi…
"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 …
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…
Hecuba
by Gregory, Justina, Euripides
fromTextbook series / American Philological Association
Euripides, Hecuba: introduction, text, and commentary
by Gregory, Justina, Euripides
fromTextbook series