Euripides and the Sophists

By Desmond Conacher

This work describes how Euripides provides, in specific plays, a variety of original treatments of well-known views of his contemporaries, the Sophists. The emphasis is on Euripides as the creative virtuoso of dramatic ideas rather than as a philosopher. Euripides' adaptation covers a range of dramatic styles and approaches, from the tragic treatment of the nature in "Hippolytus", to the near parody of Sophistic views on sense-perception in "Helen".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071562816X
• ISBN13: 9780715628164
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.6"