Suppliant women
Subtitle: Electra ; Heracles
By: Euripides ; edited and translated by David Kovacs.
Contributors: Kovacs, David.
Series: The Loeb classical library ;; LCL 9; Loeb classical library ;; 9.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Euripides -- Translations into English; Mythology, Greek -- Drama
Other titles: Suppliant women ; Electra ; Heracles; Electra.; Heracles.
Description: Centering on the right of proper burial for those fallen in battle, Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. In Electra Euripides gives us his version of the famous legend of the murder of Clytaemestra by her children in revenge for her killing their father, a portrayal interestingly different from that in Sophocles' Electra. Narrating sudden reversals in the hero's fortunes, Heracles testifies to the fragility of human happiness.
Notes: Greek and English.
Includes bibliographical references.