{"product_id":"electra-and-other-plays-euripides-pb-1999-greek-tragedy-classical-drama-ancient","title":"Electra and Other Plays Euripides Greek Tragedy Classical Drama Ancient","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-weight:=\"\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEuripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cfont color=\"#0f1111\" face=\"Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eWritten in the period from 426 to 415 BC, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens and Sparta, these five plays are haunted by the horrors of war – and its particular impact on women. Only the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eSuppliants\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e, with its extended debate on democracy and monarchy, can be seen as a patriotic piece. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eThe Trojan Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e is perhaps the greatest of all anti-war dramas; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eAndromache\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e shows the ferocious clash between the wife and concubine of Achilles’ son Neoptolemos; while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eHecabe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e reveals how hatred can drive a victim to an appalling act of cruelty. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eElectra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e develops (and parodies) Aeschylus’ treatment of the same story, in which the heroine and her brother Orestes commit matricide to avenge their father Agamemnon. As always, Euripides presents the heroic figures of mythology as recognizable, often very fallible, human beings. Some of his greatest achievements appear in this volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46320455155909,"sku":"330626005","price":20.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/57_91f2c16b-82fa-45bc-8fa1-e673a5c6025f.jpg?v=1780824225","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/electra-and-other-plays-euripides-pb-1999-greek-tragedy-classical-drama-ancient","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}