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Women of Trachis: Trachinies: v. 3 (Dian Classical Texts: Greek Tragedy) - Softcover

 
9789607222121: Women of Trachis: Trachinies: v. 3 (Dian Classical Texts: Greek Tragedy)
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When Hercules returns home with a beautiful young princess, Daysair, his jealous wife, gives him a cloak treated with what she believes is a powerful love potion in hopes of winning him back.

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For Ezra Pound, Sophokles' Women of Trachis represented 'the highest peak of Greek sensibility registered in any of the plays that have come down to us...' Nothing rhetorical, nothing long winded survives in Pound's tragedy of Herakles.
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C. K. Williams, a poet, has previously published Iam the Bitter Name Gregory Dickerson is Associate Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

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  • PublisherDian Books
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 9607222121
  • ISBN 13 9789607222121
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages135

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