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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Date Published: 1968
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1956
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1956
ISBN-13:9780226307817ISBN:0226307816
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780226307817ISBN:0226307816
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Publisher: Chicago University Press
Date Published: 01/04/1956
ISBN-13:9780226307817ISBN:0226307816
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2002
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"All four plays are startling retellings of traditional material with varying degrees of interest, all of which participate in sociopolitical realities of fifth century Athens that many today might find also informative.
The Cyclops is the only surviving Satyr play from antiquity, but beyond that it sets up much of the retelling that is familiar in the Aeneid of Odysseus/Ulysses and Polyphemus (such as the setting of Polyphemus' cave in Sicily). The way Euripides tells it demonstrates that the "civilized" brutality of Odysseus is just as savage as the "uncivilized" brutality of the Cyclops, if not more so. It is a lesson that anyone in the 20th and 21st centuries would be familiar with and could sympathize with.
The Heracles may be the weakest of the four plays in this series, but stresses the title hero's humanity rather than his divinity, introducing a great deal of pathos as when he has reached his zenith of fame and power, he is brought to his own personal nadir.
The last two plays, the Iphigenia in Tauris and the Helen, now two of my most favorite Euripidean plays, show many similarities, including the clever ruses of the leading women to get the leading men (and themselves) out of danger's way. Both include breathtaking speed of action, a great deal of romantic content (in the original meaning of that word)--itself something Euripides seems to have been toying with and introduced to the tragic genre--skepticism about the gods (as also does the Heracles), and wonderfully written recognition scenes of long lost (and assumed dead) family and lovers. One striking aspect of the Helen is the theme of war on false pretenses and the complete pointlessness of war in general--something quite relevant to today.
Euripides's primary weakness as a writer, however, is that he writes himself into a corner by the end of his plays and frequently resorts to deus ex machina, with resolution of unsolvable differences coming at the command of a god or goddess for all to be peaceful and the aggrieved parties all give in and live peacefully (this is difficult to take in play after play after play)."
"Iphagenia in Taurus was worth reading, and it makes an interesting melodrama, not really a tragedy. This volume does contain the only Satyr play to survive complete from the three great Athenian tragedians."
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