by Euripides · Oxford University Press, U.S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198150244
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Heraclidae is a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, centered on the persecution of the children of Heracles. This Clarendon Paperbacks edition includes an introduction and commentary by John Wilkins, who interprets the poetic and dramatic features of the play, situating it in its cultural context and discussing its importance for understanding Greek cults and religious rituals. The Greek text matches that of the Oxford Classical Text.
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
