Euripides: Alcestis / Edition 1

by D. Conacher

Overview

The theme of Euripides' Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles' heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of "virtue rewarded", in this case twice rewarded.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856682353
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2004
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

+D. J. Conacher was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Honorary President of the Classical Association of Canada. His publications include Aeschylus: The Earlier Plays and Related Studies (University of Toronto Press, 1996), Aeschylus' Oresteia: a Literary Commentary (University of Toronto Press, 1989), Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: a Literary Commentary (University of Toronto Press, 1981) and Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme and Structure (University of Toronto Press, 1967).