THE CAPTIVE WOMAN'S LAMENT IN GREEK TRAGEDY

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark grey cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with minor bumping to the extremities, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which has a touch of toning to the top edge, and is without loss or tears.

Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston, Casey Dué offers a fresh interpretation of the laments of captive women in Athenian tragedy and explores the tragic playwrights' attempts to use the lament to create an empathetic link between the Greek audience and the barbarian on stage, through close examinations of Aeschylus' 'Persians' and Euripedes' 'Hecuba', 'Trojan Women', and 'Andromache'.