About the Books
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Book Name: Euripides and His Age
- Author Name: Gilbert Murray
- Book Genre: Tragedy
- Language: English
- Published: August 23rd 2012
- ISBN: 0217717446
- Page: 50 pages
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Books Description
Excerpt: …IN ATHENS: FROM THE “IPHIGENIA” TO THE “ORESTES” Critics have used various words to describe the change of mood which followed the Trojan Women. They speak of a period of despair, pessimism, progressive bitterness, Verzweiflung und Weltschmertz. But such phrases seem to me misleading. In the first place I do not think they describe quite truly even the particul