by Eurípides · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420601199
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«Alcestis, Medea, Hipólito» is the volume of three tragedies by Euripides, published by Alianza in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together three of Euripides' most celebrated tragedies: Alcestis, Medea and Hippolytus. Alcestis revolves around the sacrifice of a wife to save her husband; Medea, around revenge after Jason's abandonment; Hippolytus, around Phaedra's passion and its consequences. The edition includes an introduction, translation and notes by Antonio Guzmán Guerra.
Annotated edition in the Alianza collection, Classics Section no. 1119. Includes a glossary of theatre terms and a chronological table of the 5th century BC.
For students and readers of classical literature who want to approach Greek tragedy with critical apparatus.
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
