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Hecuba: girlboss, gaslight, gatekeep
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Hecuba: Introduction, Text, and Commentary
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The first modern, full-length commentary of Hecuba suitable for classroom use, this edition also contains material directed to more advanced students and to scholars. It includes an introduction, appendix on lyric meters, bibliography, and index.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,-0424
This edition
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256 pages, Paperback
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May 1, 1999 by Oxford University Press
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9780788506116
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0788506110
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English
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Odysseus
A legendary Greek king of Ithaca and a hero of Homers epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homers Iliad.Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laërtes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, gu...
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Polyxena
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Hecuba
Hecuba (Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη Hekábē]) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homers Iliad such as the warriors Hector a...
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Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων; modern Greek: Αγαμέμνονας, "very resolute") is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope; the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him t...
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Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of William Shakespeare's Othello, Jean Racine's Phèdre, of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg," in which "imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates". But he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.
His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism. Both were frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes. Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence. Ancient biographies hold that Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia, but recent scholarship casts doubt on these sources.
Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of William Shakespeare's Othello, Jean Racine's Phèdre, of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg," in which "imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates". But he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.
His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism. Both were frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes. Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence. Ancient biographies hold that Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia, but recent scholarship casts doubt on these sources.
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What does a 2000 year old play have to tell us about our lives today. . .astonishingly quite a bit. Hecuba was the Queen of Troy and watched her city destroyed and her sons killed or taken as slaves after the Greek's destroyed Troy. . .her rages against war are prescient today still...
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n "yo, desde luego, no he muerto cuando debía morir, ni zeus me eliminó, sino que me da vida para que vea yo, la infeliz, otras desgracias mayores que las desgracias pasadas."n
hécuba my beloved no one's doing it like you
hécuba my beloved no one's doing it like you
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I'm reading this for backgronnd and inspiration as I begin to write a new novel -- What Cassandra Didn't Know.
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این نمایشنامه به تازگی توسط نشر بیدگل ترجمه و چاپ شده و خوشحالم که چنین اثر مهمی رو تونستم بخونم.
اوریپیدس این‌بار از شخصیت زنی به اسم هکوب، شهبانوی سرزمین تروا، نوشته که بعد از حمله اسپارت ها به اونجا و نابودی شهر، هکوب و دخترش رو به بردگی می‌گیرن.
نمایشنامه هکوب رو به عنوان یک مادر، همسر و زن نشون می‌ده و همچنین درد جانکاهی که بعد از جنگ شامل حالش میشه، به نظر شخصی خودم، نمایشنامه از نقطه شروع تا پایان در اوج بود و یک لحظه هم منو از خوندن ادامه ماجرا خسته نکرد، برای کامل کردن حرفم دیگه چی مهم‌تر از این که پلیمِستُر قبل از مرگش سرنوشت آگاممنون و هکوب رو گفت و داستان تموم شد! نمایشنامه همچنان باعث شد من برم دنبال ادامه ماجرا و این اتفاق قشنگیه و می‌تونه افرادی رو که خوندن نمایشنامه های کلاسیک براشون یه چالشه و تاحالا هیچ کدومشون رو نخوندن جذب کنه، گرچه دوران اوریپیدس بعد از سوفوکلس و آیسخولوس بوده و این دو بزرگوار هم نمایشنامه های وحشتناک خفنی دارن، اما من آثار اوریپیدس رو برای مخاطب تازه وارد پیشنهاد می‌کنم، همون‌طور که خودم با قلاب مده آ توی این دنیا اسیر شدم.
اوریپیدس این‌بار از شخصیت زنی به اسم هکوب، شهبانوی سرزمین تروا، نوشته که بعد از حمله اسپارت ها به اونجا و نابودی شهر، هکوب و دخترش رو به بردگی می‌گیرن.
نمایشنامه هکوب رو به عنوان یک مادر، همسر و زن نشون می‌ده و همچنین درد جانکاهی که بعد از جنگ شامل حالش میشه، به نظر شخصی خودم، نمایشنامه از نقطه شروع تا پایان در اوج بود و یک لحظه هم منو از خوندن ادامه ماجرا خسته نکرد، برای کامل کردن حرفم دیگه چی مهم‌تر از این که پلیمِستُر قبل از مرگش سرنوشت آگاممنون و هکوب رو گفت و داستان تموم شد! نمایشنامه همچنان باعث شد من برم دنبال ادامه ماجرا و این اتفاق قشنگیه و می‌تونه افرادی رو که خوندن نمایشنامه های کلاسیک براشون یه چالشه و تاحالا هیچ کدومشون رو نخوندن جذب کنه، گرچه دوران اوریپیدس بعد از سوفوکلس و آیسخولوس بوده و این دو بزرگوار هم نمایشنامه های وحشتناک خفنی دارن، اما من آثار اوریپیدس رو برای مخاطب تازه وارد پیشنهاد می‌کنم، همون‌طور که خودم با قلاب مده آ توی این دنیا اسیر شدم.
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معذرة.. عندما تفوق الآلام حد الإحتمال، فلا ملامة لمن يهرب من حياته التعسة.
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Well, that was soul-crushing.
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