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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199555095
• ISBN13: 9780199555093
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.6"