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050 00 $aPA3978$b.Y66 2020
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100 1 $aYoon, Florence,$d1981-$eauthor.
245 10 $aEuripides :$bchildren of Heracles /$cFlorence Yoon.
264 1 $aLondon, UK ;$aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury Academic,$c2020.
264 4 $c©2020
300 $axi, 158 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCompanions to Greek and Roman tragedy
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAction and expectation -- Summing the parts -- Heracles and other imagined figures -- The power of the weak -- Then and now.
520 $a"This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 00 $aEuripides.$tChildren of Heracles.
630 07 $aChildren of Heracles (Euripides)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01357311
776 08 $iOnline version:$aYoon, Florence,$tEuripides: children of heracles$dNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.$z9781350076761$w(DLC) 2019039154
830 0 $aCompanions to Greek and Roman tragedy.
852 00 $bglx$hPA3978$i.Y66 2020