- Alcestis (Greek mythology), Greek drama, Greek drama (Tragedy), great_books_of_the_western_world
"Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Euripides
- First published
- 1818
- Pages
- 122
- Publisher
- G. Bell, University of Oklahoma Press, Unwin Hyman
- Editions
- 111
- Language
- und, grc, English, German
- ISBN
- 9781406533637
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- Greek drama (Tragedy)
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“A strange thing is happening in this palace.”
Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his.[1] Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://e
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