Euripides: Children of Heracles (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) - Image 1

£75.69

Bloomsbury Academic Euripides: Children of Heracles (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)

Name: Euripides: Children of Heracles (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Price: 75.69 GBP
Availability: InStock

Type

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£76 today · previous high £76 · all-time low £70

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 631 days • 631 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 631 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £71 (427 days, 67.7%)

Price range: £70 - £76

Price levels: 3 different prices over 631 days

Description

Review Yoon opens up this play’s neglected riches in crisp, lucid, and precise prose. ― Greece & RomeWith [an] earnest and well-executed plea for readers and theatre-goers to appreciate this relatively neglected play for what it has to offer rather than succumb to the weight of a long, but receding, history of negative critical reception, Yoon fulfils the aims of a Bloomsbury Companion admirably. ― The Classical Review Product Description This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides’ Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles’ family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play’s moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play’s original performance and its political resonance both then and now. About the Author Florence Yoon is Assistant Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1350076759
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Drama > Type
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 January 2020
Listed Since: 18 April 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury Academic Euripides: Children of Heracles (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (The New Classical Canon)

Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (The New Classical Canon)

A Companion to Euripides (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 1: The Fifth Century: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy

Euripides: Troades: Edited with Introduction and Commentary

Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)

Greek Elegy and Iambus: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Classics and Media Theory (Classical Presences)

Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study (Routledge Classics)

Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama

Routledge Aeschylus and War: Seven Against Thebes Study

Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary

Last Thoughts on Euripides: A Companion to the Revised Edition of the Second Volume of the Oxford Classical Text

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Poets: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Poets: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Euripides, "Alexandros": Introduction, Text and Commentary (Texte Und Kommentare): 57

Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: From the first Apologists to the end of the Quattrocento: 18 (Metaforms, 18)

Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Greek Tragedy into Film (Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature)

Coffret Pléiade Tragiques grecs 2v: Euripide, Théâtre complet - Eschyle/Sophocle, Tragédies