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Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics) (98th Edition) by John Davie (Translator), Richard (Introduction By) Rutherford, Ruskin Bond, Davie Euripides Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-14-044668-0 / 0140446680 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044668-5 / 9780140446685 Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient author |