by Eurípides · Clásicas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478823123
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«Andrómaca» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides published by Clásicas in paperback (94 pages, in Spanish).
The play is set after the fall of Troy: Andromache, widow of Hector, lives as a slave and concubine of Neoptolemus in Phthia and has had a son with him. When Neoptolemus is away, Hermione, his legitimate wife, and Menelaus, her father, conspire to destroy Andromache and her son; she takes refuge in the sanctuary of Thetis to save their lives. The piece explores the consequences of war and the cruelty of relations between victors and vanquished.
1998 edition with introduction by José Luis Navarro and Gemma López Martínez and translation from the Greek by José Luis Navarro.
Recommended for readers of classical Greek theatre and scholars of ancient literature.
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.
