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Euripides Plays 3 - Alkestis & Helen & Ion
Euripides trans J Michael Walton & Kenneth McLeish… Price: $18.95
The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy ...
Alkestis is a moving "romance" with death and has parallels to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Helen, an alternative version of the tragic portrayal of the Trojan War, shows Helen "relocated in a delightful comedy" - as an innocent victim of her own beauty, hidden in Egypt by the gods while her image has been abducted by Paris
In Ion a father who thought he was childless discovers his
son, and a son who thought he was motherless finds his mother
