Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides

Author/Contributor(s):	Foley, Helene P
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	08/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of...