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Euripides and His Age

Gilbert Murray

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013-06-11
主題	Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN	14904139529781490413952
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4oSinQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

A book that is far removed from the usual academic and scholastic treatment of a classic theme.Gilbert Murray writes of Euripides and his message for our modern age, and finds analogies between the ancient Greek dramatist and the modern Ibsen. Like every man who possesses real vitality, Euripides, he points out, was the resultant of two forces. He was first a child of a particular age, of a tradition. He was secondly a rebel against that tradition. he tradition against which he rebelled, the Periclean, was in many ways similar to the Victorian against which present-day rebels now turn. The book is a study of the age in which Euripides lived, fifth century Athens; of his reaction against it; and of his use of the prevailing art form of the period, the tragic drama.

While popular enough for the general reader, it affords the classical student an excellent perspective of Euripides' work as a whole and of the constructive ritual of Greek drama.

No one can fail to understand 'Euripides and His Age' after reading it.