
The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides
Marco Fantuzzi(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 7. January 2021
Book
Hardback
900 pages
978-1-107-02602-5 (ISBN)
Description
The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
1022 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-02602-5 (9781107026025)
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MARCO FANTUZZI is a Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton, London. His publications include Bionis Smyrnaei Adonidis epitaphium (1985), Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio (1988), Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge 2004; with R. Hunter) and Achilles in Love (2012). He co-edited (with R. Pretagostini) Struttura e storia dell'esametro greco (1995-1996), (with T. Papanghelis) Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral (2006) and (with C. Tsagalis) The Greek Epic Cycle and Its Ancient Reception: A Companion (Cambridge 2015).
Content
Introduction; Text; Commentary; Bibliography;