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  • Euripides
    Hanna M. Roisman
    The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides’ Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It discusses Greek theatre and performance, the myth behind the play, and the literary, intellectual, and political context in which it was written and first performed. The book provides ...
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    39,66 €

  • Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama
    Hanna M. Roisman
    The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the w...
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    44,17 €

  • Sophocles’ Electra
    Hanna M. Roisman
    Sophocles’ Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception. Its nuanced treatment of matricidal revenge with all the questions it raises; its compelling depictions of the idealistic, long -grieving, rebellious Electra; her compliant sister; her brother; and her mother; and its superb poetry have all contributed to making this one of Sophocles’ most admired plays, as...
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    53,87 €

  • Sophocles
    Hanna M. Roisman
    Like other classical Greek tragedies, Sophocles’ Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play. Dramatising the efforts of people who had wronged him to bring the play’s hero, Philoctetes, to join the Greek forces in their war against Troy, it traces the moral and emotional development of the young Neoptolemos as he struggles between the values of honesty and decei...
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    44,96 €

  • Nothing Is as It Seems
    Hanna M. Roisman / Hanna MRoisman
    In this valuable book, Hanna M. Roisman provides a uniquely comprehensive look at Euripides’ Hippolytus. Roisman begins with an examination of the ancient preference for the implicit style, and suggests a possible reading of Euripides’ first treatment of the myth which would account for the Athenian audience’s reservations about his Hippolytus Veiled. She proceeds to analyze si...
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    69,66 €