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This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' __Troades__, with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that brings centuries of classical scholarship to bear on a wide variety of questions. These include the interpretation of the play as part of a trilogy (its companion plays were __Alexandros and Palamedes__, of which we have only fragments), the contribution of the various scenes, speeches, and choral odes to the play, the style and usage of Euripides, and the stage action of the original performance. Since the play was performed in 415, shortly after the Athenian subjugation of Melos, it has frequently been interpreted as a criticism of Athenian foreign policy. The Introduction provides numerous converging arguments against this view and also sshows that those who hold it are forced to ignore a great deal of the text and cannot account for the Helen episode. The commentary, in addition to discussing the topics named above, interrogates the play's intellectual content, topics such as the nature of human success, vicissitude in mortal life, and the workings of the gods in the world, and re-evaluates the way the play's first audience were meant to react to the worldv

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Author

Eurípides, ca. 480-406 a.C.; David Kovacs

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199296156

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry