by Eurípides, Aurelio Pérez Jiménez · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420650715
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This book brings together three tragedies by the Greek author Euripides: Phoenician Women, The Suppliants, and Heraclidae. The works, written in the context of the Peloponnesian War, explore themes such as the national glory of Athens, war conflicts, and injustices. In The Suppliants, the mothers of the Argive warriors seek asylum in Athens to bury their sons. In Phoenician Women, foreigners testify to the disasters of war. In Heraclidae, the descendants of Heracles seek refuge in Athens fleeing from Eurystheus.
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.
