Ten Plays by Euripides
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting and stunning realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.
Ten Plays by Euripides
3rd paperback printing
Condition: Very good, edge and corner wear, spine creasing, light scuffing. Softcover.
Publishing Info: Bantam, New York
ISBN: 9780553211603
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.
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