Opis: Euripides Alcestis - Jerram C. S.

Excerpt from Euripides Alcestis: With Introduction and Notes

Euripides, the son of Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides, was born B.C. 480, the year of the battle of Salamis. He was thus a younger contemporary of Aeschylus, about fifteen years junior to Sophocles, and eleven or twelve years older than Socrates, who afterwards became his friend and one of his chief supporters. He appears to have devoted himself in early life to the pursuit of literature and the fine arts, and to have been the pupil of Anaxagoras, Protagoras, and Prodicus. In 455 B.C. (the year Aeschylus died) Euripides produced his first tragedy, the Peliades, no longer extant; and in 441 he gained the first tragic prize for a 'trilogy,' or group of three plays, the names of which have not been preserved. Two years later (B.C. 439) came the group containing the Alcestis and three others; for these Euripides gained only the second prize, the first being awarded to Sophocles. From this it is clear that although Alcestis is the earliest play that has survived (except the doubtful Rhesus), it is by no means a youthful effort, since it was produced when the author was over forty years of age, and in the maturity of his powers. It may be well to bear this in mind, when we come to examine the criticism, favourable or adverse, that has been passed upon the play itself.

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Nazwa: Euripides Alcestis With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Jerram C. S.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330665411
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 138
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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