by Euripides · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482643861
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«Hipòlit» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides in Joan Alberich's Catalan translation, published by La Magrana in paperback (94 pages, in Catalan).
The tragedy pits Hippolytus, a young devotee of Artemis, against the goddess Aphrodite, who, punishing his rejection, awakens in Phaedra, wife of Theseus, a passion forbidden by her stepson. From disdain and guilt is born an accusation that drags the hero down: a drama about the vengeance of the gods, unrequited love and fate.
Translated from the Greek by Joan Alberich, with introduction and notes; belongs to the L'Esparver clàssic collection (no. 43) and includes bibliographical references.
Thanks to its introduction and notes, it is useful for students and readers of classical Greek theatre.
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.
