by Eurípides · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447359929
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This book is a compilation of tragedies written by Euripides, including 'Helena', 'The Phoenician Women', 'Orestes', 'Iphigenia in Aulis', 'The Bacchae', and 'Rhesus'. Euripides, born in Salamis, is known for his innovative approach to portraying his fellow citizens with lucidity and crudeness, addressing themes such as sexuality, slavery, and the condition of women on the Greek stage. This edition belongs to the Biblioteca Gredos.
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.
