Euripides: Hecuba

by Helene P. Foley

Book Overview

Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472569067
• ISBN13: 9781472569066
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.6"