The Trojan Women of Euripides. Euripides
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Название: The Trojan Women of Euripides

Автор: Euripides

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       Euripides

      The Trojan Women of Euripides

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664652249

       THE ATHENIAN DRAMA

       THE

       TROJAN WOMEN

       EURIPIDES

       GILBERT MURRAY, M.A., LL.D.

       INTRODUCTORY NOTE

       THE TROJAN WOMEN

       CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

       THE TROJAN WOMEN

       NOTES ON THE TROJAN WOMEN

       BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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      FOR ENGLISH READERS

      A Series of Verse Translations of the Greek

       Dramatic Poets, with Commentaries and

       Explanatory Notes.

      Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 7s. 6d. each net.

       Each Volume Illustrated from ancient

       Sculptures and Vase-Painting.

      AESCHYLUS: The Orestean Trilogy. By Prof. G. C. Warr. With an Introduction on The Rise of Greek Tragedy, and 13 Illustrations.

      SOPHOCLES: Œdipus Tyrannus and Coloneus, and Antigone. By Prof. J. S. Phillimore. With an Introduction on Sophocles and his Treatment of Tragedy, and 16 Illustrations.

      EURIPIDES: Hippolytus; Bacchae; Aristophanes' 'Frogs.' By Prof. Gilbert Murray. With an Appendix on The Lost Tragedies of Euripides, and an Introduction on The Significance of the Bacchae in Athenian History, and 12 Illustrations. [Second Edition.

      ALSO UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE

      THE HOMERIC HYMNS. A New Prose Rendering by Andrew Lang, with Essays Critical and Explanatory, and 14 Illustrations.

      THE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES

      Translated into English Rhyming Verse, with Explanatory Notes, by Prof. Gilbert Murray. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. each net.

      The Trojan Women.

       Electra.[In the Press.

Hippolytus. Third Edition. Bacchae. } Paper Covers, Impl. 16mo, 1s. each net.

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      OF

      EURIPIDES

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      TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE

      WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY

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      EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY

       OF GLASGOW; SOMETIME FELLOW OF

       NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD

      LONDON

       GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD

       1905

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      Printed by Ballantyne Hanson & Co.

       At the Ballantyne Press

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      Judged by common standards, the Troädes is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play. It is an intense study of one great situation, with little plot, little construction, little or no relief or variety. The only movement of the drama is a gradual extinguishing of all the familiar lights of human life, with, perhaps, at the end, a suggestion that in the utterness of night, when all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory. But the situation itself has at least this dramatic value, that it is different from what it seems.

      The consummation of a great conquest, a thing celebrated in paeans and thanksgivings, the very height of СКАЧАТЬ