Ten Plays by Euripides
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Book
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ISBN 10
0553213636
ISBN 13
9780553213638
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Publication Year
1984
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Pages
432
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The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are. - from Amzon
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