Euripides' Hekabe [Paperback]

Robert Emmet Meagher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0865163308 | ISBN-13: 978-0865163300

This ancient Greek tragedy presents a spectacle of the torment, rage, and revenge endured and enacted by women who, Euripides realized, suffer first and most from war. In Hekabe, the fate of the bereaved queen of Troy is a testament to the dehumanizing rather than ennobling effects of intense and prolonged suffering.

As long as we live in a world which may almost be defined by violence, the ancient voice of Euripides' Hekabe will offer compelling witness to the courage and solidarity of those who suffer it most and a fierce challenge to the simplistic assurance that suffering is somehow for the better of us all. Meagher's translation of Euripides' Hekabe offers: - A lively and extremely actable English translation that is true to the word and spirit of the ancient original - An illuminating, attractive, and affordable presentation for the general reader, the college student, the director and performer alike.

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Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

As long as we live in a world which may almost be defined by violence, the ancient voice of Euripides' Hekabe will offer compelling witness to the courage and solidarity of those who suffer it most and a fierce challenge to the simplistic assurance that suffering is somehow for the better of us all. Meagher's translation of Euripides' Hekabe offers: - A lively and extremely actable English translation that is true to the word and spirit of the ancient original - An illuminating, attractive, and affordable presentation for the general reader, the college student, the director and performer alike.

From the Author

In 1968, campaigning in Indiana, Robert Kennedy was poised to address a massive crowd in Indianapolis, when he was told that Martin Luther King had been shot and killed. It fell to Kennedy to announce this fact and to address the outrage it would ignite. He tore up his written speech and said what came to him. What came to him was this:

What we need in the United States is not division or hatred or violence, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black. My favorite poet was Aeschylus who wrote: In our sleep, pain, which we cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair and against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' So let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of this world.'

Indianapolis was calm; but Chicago, for one, soon exploded. For a time, riot was the rule. Suffering does not always bring wisdom. Grief is not always humanizing. It did not take the assassinations of 1968 or the atrocities of what was Yugoslavia to teach us this. Greek tragedy is soaked with the counter-truth: suffering and grief are disfiguring and provoke hideous reprisals. Revenge is sweet, excess gratifying. These are truths most often excluded from the canon of Greek wisdom, ignored like the plays which house them, plays like Euripides' Hebabe. From the Meagher's Foreward.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 55 pages
• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (June 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865163308
• ISBN-13: 978-0865163300
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,387,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)