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Euripides and the Poetics ofSorrow
Euripides and the Poetics ofSorrow
'.' ART, GENDER, AND
COMMEMORATION IN
ALCESTIS, HIPPOLYTUS,
AND HECUBA
Charles Segal
Duke University Press
Durham and London
1993
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. The excerpt from On Not H
Knowing Greek" from The Common
Reader by Virginia Woolf, copyright 1925 by Harcourt Brace & Company and renewed 1953 by Leonard Woolf, is reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Fr£lntispiece: Votive relief, ca.
46~ B.C.,
of mourning Athena.
Athens, Acropolis Museum.
Foto MJ.rburg / Art Resource, N. Y.
FOR
JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT
o0' oAf3tO~ ov'ttva Moucrat