University of Michigan Press, Date: 1991-02. Hardcover. Good. 1991. University of Michigan Press ISBN 0472102303 9780472102303 [US]

Univ of Michigan Pr, January Date: 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, hardcover. Book in Very Good condition. Name of former owner on front endpaper in ink. Dust jacket almost like new. A few stray neat pencil marks in text. Nice copy all in all. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. 1991. Univ of Michigan Pr ISBN 0472102303 9780472102303 [US]

ISBN10: 0472102303, ISBN13: 9780472102303, [publisher: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover. Near fine in grey cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Small spot of soiling to front cover. Previous owner inscription in pen to first page. In blue dust jacket with white title to spine and front panels. 208 pages. CLA/011817.
[Savage, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
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Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. ISBN 0472102303 9780472102303 [US]

ISBN10: 0472102303, ISBN13: 9780472102303, [publisher: The University of Michigan Press. 01.02.1991.] Hardcover 208 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis, and especially the polis that was democratic Athens. Instructional as well, drama frequently concerns itself with the audience’s moral education. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians draws on these political and didactic functions of tragedy for a close analysis of five plays: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Heracles, and Trojan Women. -- While Euripides’ works have often seemed bewildering, the approach offered by this volume gives a unifying viewpoint within the surviving Euripidean corpus. The plays considered here display a common orientation, one that accompanied the establishment of the Athenian democracy. Most fundamental is Euripides’ demonstration that the political categories of freedom and compulsion, equality and privilege, individual and community, reverberate at a level far deeper than the political. Indeed, they affect the human regard for death, influence our erotic responses, and determine how we may ...
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ISBN10: 0472102303, ISBN13: 9780472102303, [publisher: Univ of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.] Hardcover Unused pristine first edition bound in grey cloth with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket is unclipped, protected in removable mylar, also pristine. Examines a number of Euripidean plays, finding a common orientation that the political categories of freedom, compulsion, equality, and privilege go beyond the political and influence our erotic responses. 208 pages includes index, bibliography, notes.
[Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]