Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-114) and index.
Table of Contents
Biography of Euripides -- Plot summary of Alcestis -- List of characters in Alcestis -- Critical views on Alcestis : Gilbert Murray on the Play as pro-satyr ; Anne Pippin Burnett on the Virtues of Admetus ; Philip Vellacott on the Play as critique of ancient marriage customs ; Justina Gregory on the Distinction between necessity and free will ; Nicole Loraux on the Ambiguous nature of feminine glory in tragedy ; Robert C. Ketterer on the Statue motif -- Plot summary of The Bacchae -- List of characters in The Bacchae -- Critical views on The Bacchae : Gilbert Murray on Euripides' originality ; William Sale psychoanalyzes Pentheus ; William C. Scott on the Symbolic significance of light and darkness in the play ; Charles Segal on the Play's enactment of the paradoxical nature of tragedy ; John E.G. Whitehorne on the Spectacle of Pentheus' remains ; Mary R. Lefkowitz on Euripides' traditionalism in portraying the power of the gods ; Valdis Leinieks on Pentheus' erroneous perception ; Daniel Mark Epstein on Religious ecstasies in ancient and modern times.