Ten Plays by Euripides
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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.
Manufacturer: Bantam Classics
Release date: 1 February 1984
ISBN-10 : 0553213636 | ISBN-13: 9780553213638
Release date: 1 February 1984
ISBN-10 : 0553213636 | ISBN-13: 9780553213638
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