This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential
play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as
well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as
a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her
tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the
potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked
as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is
the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for
this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus. The
commentary provides morphological and syntactic help for inexperienced
students and more advanced observations on vocabulary, rhetoric,
dramatic techniques, stage action, and details of interpretation, from
the famous debate of Medea and Jason to the 'unmotivated' entrance of
Aegeus and the controversial monologue of Medea.
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9781139930680
Publisert
2014
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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