Opening book details…
Can I read Euripides: Hecuba (companions To Greek And Roman Tragedy) on EtoBox?
Euripides: Hecuba (companions To Greek And Roman Tragedy) by Helene P. Foley is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Euripides: Hecuba (companions To Greek And Roman Tragedy) about?
Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the six
Who reads Euripides: Hecuba (companions To Greek And Roman Tragedy)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Helene P. Foley
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472569073
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Helene P. Foley
Browse all works by Helene P. Foley
Similar books
- Euripides: Phoenician Women (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) — Thalia Papadopoulou (2008)
- Euripides: Orestes (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) — Matthew Ephraim Wright (2008)
- Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) — Isabelle C Torrance (2019)
- Aeschylus: Libation Bearers (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) — C. W. Marshall (2017)
- Sophocles: Electra (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) — Michael Lloyd (2005)
- Euripides: Medea (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) — William Allan (2002)