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The Complete Euripides
by Peter K. Burian , Alan Shapiro
by Peter K. Burian , Alan Shapiro
I just read Hipploytos in preparation for Racine's Phedre, which is based on it. It was terrific though. I had sortof forgotten how psychologically complex the Greek playwrights were.
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Jan 16, 2011 03:38am
I love me some Euripides.
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This was my first time! Shocking, huh? And I only read Hippolytos; it was in preparation for reading Racine's Phedre. Loved it, though. Nice reminder of how psychologically complicated those Greek playwrights were.
Well, he's about the only Greek playwright I'm really familiar with. I read a few plays by a several different ones in school of course, but his were the only ones I liked enough to follow up on. Yep, those Greeks were nearly modern types in some ways. Apart from their sexual habits!
Sophocles has incredible raw power, and Aristophanes is terrifically dextrous. Euripides seems somewhere in between. He's sly. Like he took the best of the other two. Not that he's funny like Aristophanes - Hippolytos is, if nothing else, not very funny - just subtle. I should read more of him, though.
