Children of Heracles
Hippolytus ; Andromache ; Hecuba
by Euripides
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This edition and commentary provides an introduction to one of Euripides' less well-known plays, and describes the enormous value of the text for our understanding of Athenian drama, religion, and society. Despite the excellent commentaries of Elmsley (1821) and Pearson (1907), and powerful articles by Wilamowitz, the play has not been given the notice it deserves.
This edition interprets the play in a wide cultural setting, considering unorthodox aspects of the structure of the drama, but placing particular emphasis on the cults and myths of Heracles in Attica, on his apotheosis and marriage, on his association with the young, and most of all on the two most striking rituals in the play: the voluntary self-sacrifice of the daughter of Heracles, and the conversion of Eurystheus from an enemy of Athens to a hero whose dead body will protect the city-state. The text is James Diggle's (Oxford Classical Texts 1984).
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Children of Heracles: Hippolytus ; Andromache ; Hecuba
1995, Harvard University Press
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The children of Herakles
1981, Oxford University Press
in English and Ancient Greek
0195029143 9780195029147
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Greek and English on facing pages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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