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This is the fourth volume of Euripides plays in new translation. The four plays it contains, Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, explore ethical and political themes, contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism with justice, the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency.

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Ion ; Orestes ; The Phoenician Women ; The Suppliant Women

Orestes and Other Plays Oxford Worlds Classics

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 26/03/2009
      ISBN13: 9780199552436, 978-0199552436
      ISBN10: 0199552436
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the fourth volume of Euripides plays in new translation. The four plays it contains, Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, explore ethical and political themes, contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism with justice, the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency.

      Table of Contents
      Ion ; Orestes ; The Phoenician Women ; The Suppliant Women

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