num_pages: 224
description: Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops , is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude andslapstick humor that characterized the genre. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humor while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of shelteringthem.
language: English
title: Heracles and Other Plays
titlecomplete: Heracles and Other Plays
characters: Heracles
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Plays, Read For School, Ancient, Greece, Poetry, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 154
publisher: Oxford University Press