Euripides: Phoenician Women (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) By Thalia P

EuripidesPhoenician Women\nAuthor(s): Thalia Papadopolou\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bristol Classical Press\nISBN-13: 9780715634646, 978-0715634646\nSynopsis\n\""Phoenician Women\"", one of Euripides' later tragedies, is an intriguing play that arguably displays some of his finest dramatic technique. Rich in cast and varied in incident, it is an example of Euripides' experimentation with structure. It dramatises the most fertile mythical tradition of the city of Thebes and its doomed royal family, focusing in particular on the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices as a result of their father Oedipus' curse, which eventually leads to mutual fratricide. The play was very popular throughout antiquity, and became part of the so-called \""Byzantine Triad\"" (along with \""Hecuba\"" and \""Orestes\""), of plays studied in the school [url] Papadopoulou here offers a thorough survey of the play in its historical context, against the backgrou.