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Tantalus : the Greek epic cycle retold in ten plays /

Who is to Blame? What is the Truth? Could it be Otherwise? When theatre began, two and a half millennia ago in ancient Greece, it drew from a well of even older myths, the Epic Cycle. These myths were Europe's first account of the tragedy and comedy of the human enterprise. Stories and characte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barton, John, 1928-2018
Otros Autores: Soden, Oliver
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Oberon Books Ltd, 2014.
Edición:Second revised ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part One
  • The Outbreak of War; 1. Zeus
  • The beginning of all; 2. Telephus
  • The fleet lands in the wrong place; 3. Iphigenia
  • Iphigenia is sacrificed; Part Two
  • The Fall of Troy; 4. Neoptolemus
  • The invaders debate whether to use the Wooden Horse; 5. Priam
  • The Trojans debate whether to take it in; 6. Odysseus The War-camp At Troy; 7. Cassandra Thrace Near the Sea-shore; Part Three
  • The Homecomings; 8. Hermione
  • A rehandling of Euripides's Andromache; 9. Helen
  • The trial of Helen; 10. Erigone
  • The marriage of Orestes.