| Alcestis Contributor(s): Aldington, Richard (Translator), Euripides (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798674678649 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.18" H x 6" W x 9" (0.27 lbs) 74 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translated into English rhyming versewith explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed "the most tragic of the poets." It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable. And I notice that many judges who display nothing but a fierce satisfaction in sending other plays of that author to the block or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle daughter of Pelias. |