Heracles and Other Plays

By Euripides

Book Overview

Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor that characterized the genre. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humor while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019283259X
• ISBN13: 9780192832597
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.6" x 5.0"