Alcestis

William Arrowsmith rejects the standard view of the Alcestis as a pyschological study of the egotist Admetos and his naive but devoted wife. His translation, instead, presents the playas a drama of human existence - in keeping with the tradition of Greek tragedy - with recognizably human characters who are also masked embodiments of human conditions. This version of the Alcestis reveals for the first time its extraordinary formal beauty thematic concentration. W/Notes & Glossary. 122p.