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Title: Alcestis
Author: Euripides
Release Date: December 23, 2003 [EBook #10523]
Language: English
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Biography EssayOf the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles)....
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Euripides (480-406 BC) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the Greek poets. He is certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times.Euripides was the s...
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Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen, in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are...
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In the following excerpt, Arrowsmith provides a modal analysis of the Alcestis.
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By general agreement the Alcestis is a spirited, puzzling, profound, and seriously light-hearted tragicomedy of human ...
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In the following excerpt, Conacher provides background on the Alcestis, explores the question of whether it should be considered a satyr-play, and analyzes its themes and structure.
I. Ancient Informa...
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In the following excerpt, Segal focuses on death and mourning in the Alcestis and contends that the play, despite its depiction of women's feelings, is a firmly patriarchal work.
Alcestis and t...
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In the following excerpt, Gounaridou surveys numerous twentieth-century critical interpretations of the meaning of the Alcestis and concludes that the scholarly indeterminacy she finds reflects the de...
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In the essay that follows, Rosenmeyer discusses the conversion of Admetus in Alcestis, which centers around the dramatic depiction of death in the play.
In Homer's Iliad the uneasy truce which ...
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Critical Essay by William Arrowsmith
