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010 $a 2006009092
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035 $a(OCoLC)OCM65165430
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050 00 $aPA3975$b.A2 2006
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100 0 $aEuripides.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063679
240 10 $aWorks.$kSelections (Grief lessons).$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006019393
245 10 $aGrief lessons :$bfour plays by Euripides /$cEuripides ; translated by Anne Carson.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $a312 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 1 $a"Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless - women and children, slaves and barbarians - for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides' plays rarely won first prize in the great dramatic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world." "Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor's widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippelytes, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragicomic fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form" and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.""--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aEuripides$xCriticism and interpretation.
700 1 $aCarson, Anne.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2006009092-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2006009092-d.html
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