GREEK TRAGEDY. Suffering Under the Sun.

Fifth printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With a black and white frontispiece and 40 black and white illustrations throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

A concise introduction to Greek tragedy by Edith Hall, Research Professor in Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway University of London. Hall interprets the genre's core attribute as being its ability to depict terrible human suffering and death in such a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their causes and effect, and places Greek tragedy within its social, theatrical and physical contexts. Through easily-accessible individual essays tailored to each great Greek tragedian Aeschylus, Euripedes, and Sophocles, Hall provides the general reader, undergraduate, and even specialist, with an informative and fresh reference text for further reading or study.