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Rhesos
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ISBN: 0199729638 1280441380 1423735226 1601298617 9781423735229 9781601298614 9780195072891 0195072898 9786610441389 6610441383 0195072898 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Abstract

The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been lost. In this exciting translation, Rhesos is no longer treated as a derivative Euripidean work, but rather as the tightly-knit tragedy of knowledge it really is. A drama in which profound problems of fate and free will come alive, Rhesos is also an exploration of the perversion of values that come as the r

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