Death and Marriage

This book aims to provide a comprehensive, but succinct analysis of the tragedies and comedies written by Greek and Roman dramatists. The book is comprehensive in the ways it deals not just with Greek tragedy of the fifth century BCE, but also with Seneca's tragedies of the first century CE.

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Brian Arkins is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, and at University College, Dublin. He is the author of 12 books of criticism, including 3 on Latin poetry and 2 on Yeats. Dr Arkins has written 2 books on drama: Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy, and What Shakespeare Stole from Rome. He is one of the Directors of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies in Athens.

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CONTENTS: Basics - Female Intruders - Male Heroes - The House of Atreus and the Trojan War - Aristophanes and the City of Athens - Two Tragedies Dealing with Events in History - Euripides Late Tragicomedies - Menander, Plautus, Terence.