Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides

by Helene P. Foley

Book Overview

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.

Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of making an archaic poetic tradition relevant to a democratic society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501740628
• ISBN13: 9781501740626
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher