Description:
In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies.
Brief description: Pietro Pucci is Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics Emeritus at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including Odysseus Polutropos: Intertexual Readings in the "Odyssey" and the "Iliad", The Violence of Pity in Euripides' "Medea", and Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father: "Oedipus Tyrannus" in Modern Criticism and Philosophy.
Review Quotes:
"Like the revolutionary and resolutely demystifying Euripides he puts before the reader, Pietro Pucci has been a pioneer in bringing intertextual and deconstructive readings to the major Greek poets. And the Euripides depicted here, like his learned and humane critic, brings to bear an acute sensitivity to the artifice of language to produce a poetry that not only dispels illusions but also fortifies the reader."
--Andrew Ford, Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Princeton University