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by Euripides; Morwood, James


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Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and political themes. Ion vividly portrays the role of chance in human life and the dynamics of family relationships.
In Orestes, the most popular of the tragedian's plays about the ancient world, Euripides explores the emotional consequences of Orestes' murder of his mother on the individuals concerned, and makes the tale resonate with advice to Athens about the threat to democracy posed by political pressure
groups. The Suppliant Women is a commentary on the politics of empire, as the Athenian king Theseus decides to use force of arms rather than persuasion against Thebes. The Phoenician Women transforms the terrible conflict between Oedipus' sons into one of the most savage indictments of civil war in
Western literature by highlighting the personal tragedy it brings.

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HERMES. Atlas, whose adamantine back wears out the sky,* the ancient home of the gods, fathered Maia by one of the goddesses,* and Maia bore me to almighty Zeus.

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  • Title Orestes and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).)
  • Author Euripides; Morwood, James
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date October 29, 2001
  • ISBN 9780192832603

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Robin Waterfield is the acclaimed translator of Plato's Republic in OWC, and other classical works including two volumes of Plutarch's Lives and Herodotus' Histories. He is the author of a biography of Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet, Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1998)
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