Euripides and the Sophists - (Bcpaperbacks) by Desmond Conacher & D J Conacher (Paperback)

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Conacher describes how Euripides provides, in specific plays, a variety of original dramatic 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 philosopher

Book Synopsis

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".