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Download or read book Euripides' Escape-Tragedies written by Matthew Wright and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major critical study of three late plays of Euripides: Helen, Andromeda and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Matthew Wright offers a sustained reading of the plays, arguing that they are a thematically connected trilogy. He re-examines central themes such as myth, geography, cultural identity, philosophy, religion, and (crucially) genre. These are not separate topics, but are seen as being joined together to form an intricate nexus of ideas. The book has implications for our view of Euripides and the tragic genre as a whole.