TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Euripides : Hecuba
T2  - Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy
A1  - Foley, Helene P.
LA  - eng
PP  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/helka.9928094883506253
AB  - Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations.
SN  - 978-1-4725-6906-6 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - Euripides. : Hecuba.
KW  - Greek drama : History and criticism.
KW  - antiikki.
KW  - kirjallisuudentutkimus.
KW  - kommentaarit.
KW  - kreikankielinen kirjallisuus.
KW  - antiken.
KW  - litteraturvetenskap.
KW  - kommentarer.
KW  - litteratur på grekiska.
ER  -