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Euripides: Medea

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Edited by
Donald J. Mastronarde
, University of California, Berkeley
Published 2002

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This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language…

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Key features

  • Provides expert guidance for students of ancient Greek in translating and understanding the most famous play of Euripides
  • Introduces problems of interpretation and cultural significance of the play, with ample reference to contemporary bibliography in English
  • Introduces important aspects of Greek tragedy, including special sections presenting the language and style of tragedy and basic concepts of prosody and metre

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