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Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature --- Revenge in literature --- Tragedy --- Trojan War --- Literature and the war --- Euripides.

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"Set at the end of the Trojan war, Euripides' Trojan Women depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, from the rape of Cassandra, through the triumphant self-exculpation of Helen, to the pitiful death of Astyanax, thrown from the walls of his ravaged city. Barbara Goff sets the play in its historical, dramatic and literary contexts, providing a scene-by-scene analysis which brings out the pace and intellectual vigour of the play. The main themes are fully discussed, and the book also introduces readers to the issues that have divided critics, such as the extent to which the play responds to the historical events of the Peloponnesian War. The final chapter, which deals with reception, offers new insights into several modern works."--BOOK JACKET.

Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature. --- Trojan War --- Literature and the war. --- Euripides. --- Euripide (0480-0406 av. J.-C.). Les Troyennes --- Critique et interprétation

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Andromache (Legendary character) in literature. --- Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature. --- Trojan War --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Literature and the war. --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Troy (Extinct city) --- In literature.

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Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art. Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit definitions of male and female roles. Segal shows how these plays draw on ancient traditions of poetic and ritual commemoration, particularly epic song, and at the same time refashion these traditions

Hippolytus (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature. --- Alcestis (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Trojan War --- Sex role in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Literature and the war. --- Euripides --- Euripides. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature --- Hecube (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature --- Euripides. --- Euripides --- Manuscripts --- Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Trojan war --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Women and literature --- Queens in literature. --- Manuscripts, Greek. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Literature and the war. --- Troy (Extinct city) --- In literature. --- Trojan War --- Hecube (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature --- Manuscripts, Greek --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Queens in literature --- Greek manuscripts --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Criticism, Textual --- Literature and the war --- Manuscripts.