Suppliant women
Electra ; Heracles
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Author
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- Kovacs, David. - Contributor
Publication
1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Alternate 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.
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- The Loeb classical library ;
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