Bøger af D. J. Conacher

Conacher describes how Euripides provides, in specific plays, a variety of original dramatic treatments of well-known views of his contemporaries, the Sophists. The emphasis is on Euripides as the creative virtuoso of dramatic ideas rather than as philosopher

Alcestis is the only tragedy known to have been produced in the position usually allotted (at the Athenian tragic festivals) to the semi-comic satyr-play. Although it has a happy ending, opinions differ widely on the meaning of this beautifully constructed little masterpiece. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.