by Eurípides, Fernando Alconchel Pérez, M. Acosta Esteban · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788468948416
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«Hécuba» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, published by Xunta de Galicia in paperback (72 pages, in Spanish).
After the fall of Troy, Hecuba, Trojan queen who has lost her city and her family, faces her fate as a captive. The tragedy traces her suffering and her desire for revenge, and reflects on justice, the cruelty of war and exile.
The introduction is by Fernando Alconchel Pérez; the translation, by M. Acosta Esteban and Fernando Alconchel Pérez.
For students and readers approaching Greek tragedy for the first time, with an introduction and translation that make reading easier.
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.
