This rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of
Oidipous and his doomed family. With its brooding imagery, extravagant
language, ebullient rhetoric and scenic display it is quintessential
Euripides. With its broad, yet unified, thematic sweep it offers
important points of comparison with other Theban plays and valuable
insights into late fifth century religion, politics and society.
For this volume Elizabeth Craik has prepared a new edition of
the play, with a selective apparatus. Suspect lines are clearly
marked; but the fundamental integrity of the tradition is defended.
Elizabeth Craik (St Andrews)
284pp. (1988) cl 230 6 £35 / $59.99, pb 231 4 £16.50 / $28
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General Editor's Foreword General Introduction to the Series Introduction to Phoenician Women PARALLEL GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Family Tree |
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