Euripides: The Children of Heracles

by William Allan

Overview

The Children of Heracles is a powerful and challenging tragedy of exile and supplication. Driven from their homeland by Eurystheus, king of Argos, the children of Heracles flee as fugitives throughout Greece until they are granted protection in Athens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856687419
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2001
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Edition description:	First Published in the United Kingdom in 2001. Reprinted in 2015 with Updated General Bibliography. ed.
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

William Allan is Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University and the author of The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Editorial Reviews

William Allan is rapidly establishing himself as a rising star in Euripidean studies.'

Mouseion, 2004 - Ian C Storey

Allan (Classics, Harvard U.) argues that the play is not merely a mechanical and dull panegyric of Athens, as most critics charge, but in fact a dynamic and effective tragedy. In addition to an English translation facing pages of the original Greek, he places the play in its historical context, and shows how it addressed the interests and dilemmas of its original fifth-century BC Athenian audience. Distributed in the US by David Brown Book Co. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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