Ten Plays by Euripides
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Bantam Classics |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1990-08-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780553213638 |
ISBN-13 | : 0553213636 |
Rating | : 4/5 (636 Downloads) |
Download or read book Ten Plays by Euripides written by Euripides and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1990-08-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.