The Rhesus attributed to Euripides

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The work The Rhesus attributed to Euripides represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Rhesus attributed to Euripides

Statement of responsibility

edited with introduction and commentary by Marco Fantuzzi

Contributor

• Fantuzzi, Marco

Editor

• Fantuzzi, Marco

Subject

• Euripides -- Spurious and doubtful works
• Rhesus

Language

• eng
• grc
• eng

Summary

The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them

Member of

• Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 63
• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

882.01

Index

index present

LC call number

PA3973.R5

LC item number

F36 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge classical texts and commentaries

Series volume

63