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The Rhesus, attributed to Euripides
- Title
- The Rhesus, attributed to Euripides / edited with introduction and commentary by Marco Fantuzzi.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- viii, 711 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 63
- Uniform Title
- Rhesus. Greek (Fantuzzi)
- Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 63.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Tragedies (Drama)
- Spurious and doubtful works.
- Drama.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Text in Greek, introduction and commentary in English.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1390
- ISBN
- 1107026024
- 9781107026025
- OCLC
- 1155072741
- Title
- The Rhesus, attributed to Euripides / edited with introduction and commentary by Marco Fantuzzi.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 63Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 63.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language
- Text in Greek, introduction and commentary in English.
- Added Author
- Fantuzzi, Marco, editor.Euripides, attributed name.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1390