Suppliant Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019504553X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Enormous amounts of care and poetic talent have clearly been lavished on the preparation of this text, and the result is a translation so strong and surefooted that the play appears in a new light."--Harvard Review . Thorough and provocative introduction. It is a pleasure to savour Rosanna Warren's stately and dignified poetry while learning to read the plot. An excellent set of notes and a useful glossary rounds out this lively new translation, which should give Suppliant Women a new life in the classroom and in the theatre."--Harvard Review"This new verse translation of Euripides' 'Suppliant Women' is a dist
R. D. Allison (dallison@biochem.med.ufl.edu) said Compassion for the dead and the folly of war.. The suppliants in this play by Euripides are seven women and their king (Adrastus, King of Argos) who have come to Athens and its leader, Theseus, to ask for aid in their quest. The women's seven sons had been killed in battle against Thebes in the attempt by Polyneices to regain his inheritance from his brother Eteocles (both sons of Oedipus). Argos lost the battle and both of the sons of Oedipus were killed. The new ruler of Thebes, Creon (the brothers' uncle), refused the mothers the right to recover their sons' bodies for burial. Theseus, at first, refuses to help them
Stephen Scully is Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University.. bout the Editors:Rosanna Warren is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Boston University and Poetry Consultant for the Partisan Review
This translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' 'Suppliant Women'. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures the competing poles of the human psyche.