Euripides: Alcestis
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2004
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780856682353
- Publish Date
- Jan 2004
- List Price
- $49.50
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Description
The theme of Euripides' Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles' heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of "virtue rewarded", in this case twice rewarded.
About the author
Contributor Notes
D. Conacher is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Trinity College, University of Toronto.