In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios,
who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt.
Euripides explains how this happened: Helios had seduced Phaeton's
mother - already betrothed to another - and as the price of her
seduction had promised to grant her a favour. As an adult Phaethon
claims the promise and asks to drive his father's chariot, with
disastrous consequences... Only a quarter of Euripides' original
version of Phaethon has survived. Alistair Elliot has translated these
surviving 327 lines and reconstructed the rest, staying as faithful as
possible to Euripides' time and way of thinking. The result is
something very like finding a lost Euripides play, unperformed since
the fifth century BC and amounting to a new masterpiece.
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9781849436540
Publisert
2018
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Oberon Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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