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Grief Lessons

Paperback • 2008 • English

Grief Lessons

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Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens. His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless-women and children, slaves and barbarians-for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after ...Show more

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9781590172537

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Grief Lessons

Format

Paperback

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