ISBN10: 1590171802, ISBN13: 9781590171806, [publisher: New York Review of Books (2006), New York] Hardcover Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 312 pages. Grey boards with red lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 147mm. Contains four of Euripides' tragedies in a new English translation by poet and classicist Anne Carson. The four plays in this volume are: Herakles; Hekabe; Hippolytos; Alkestis. Contents also includes a Preface - "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form" and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra". "Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. " Euripides, " the classicist Bernard Knox has written, " was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so." His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless— women and children, slaves and barbarians— for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their ...
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New York: New York Review of Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. (Date: 2006). Hardcover. 1590171802 . Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 312 pages. Grey boards with red lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 147mm. Contains four of Euripides' tragedies in a new English translation by poet and classicist Anne Carson. The four plays in this volume are: Herakles; Hekabe; Hippolytos; Alkestis. Contents also includes a Preface - "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form" and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra". "Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “ Euripides, ” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “ was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.” His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless— women and children, slaves and barbarians— for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were ...

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New York: New York Review Books / NYRB, Date: 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number sequence. Contains "Herakles," "Hekabe," "Hippolytos," and "Alkestis," four tragedies by Euripides translated by Carson, with introductions. Also contains two essays, "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form," and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra." Grey boards w/cranberry spine lettering, 312 pages. Bottom corners bumped, in lightly scuffed first state dust jacket w/bumped bottom corners. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve.. 2006. New York Review Books / NYRB ISBN 1590171802 9781590171806 [CA]