by Eurípides, Alfonso Martínez Díez · Ediciones Clasicas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478825851
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«Hipólito» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, with introduction, translation and notes by Alfonso Martínez Díez, published by Ediciones Clásicas in paperback.
The action is set in the Greek mythical world: Hippolytus, son of Theseus, lives devoted to Artemis and rejects love, which angers Aphrodite. The goddess makes Phaedra, wife of his father, fall in love with him; the young man's rejection and Phaedra's false accusation trigger a conflict that drags Hippolytus, Phaedra and Theseus toward a tragic end.
Spanish edition of 88 pages; the back cover associates this tragedy with the year 428 BC.
For readers of classical theater and Greek mythology, as well as for studies of ancient literature.
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.
