Orestes and Other Plays

by Euripides · 439 pages

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Spanning the last twenty-four years of Euripides's career, this volume includes The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Aulis.

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Genre
literary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
ancient greeceancient history
Audience
adult
Length
long · 439 pages
Form
playspoetry

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