by Euripides · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070381913
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«Tragédies complètes I» is the first volume of Euripides' tragedies, published by Gallimard in the Folio classique collection in paperback.
This volume brings together ten tragedies by Euripides, including «Medea», «Hippolytus», «Heracles Mad» and «The Suppliants». The playwright renews the genre by showing the oppressed of the Greek cities and offers a harrowing vision of the human condition, where love and despair lead to atrocious crimes.
Edition and translation by Marie Delcourt-Curvers. Volume I of the complete surviving tragedies of Euripides.
For readers interested in classical Greek theatre, tragedy and mythology.
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.
