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[ SOLD OUT ] AÉLION, Rachel, Euripide héritier d'Eschyle. Tome 1. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1983. 355p. Sewn. Cardboard. Series: Collection d'études anciennes, Collection d'études mythologiques. 'The first volume of this study deals with 'le choix et le traitement du mythe', and includes consideration of lost plays; the second will deal with 'la mise en oeuvre dramatique (schémas et thèmes; personnages)', and will confine itself to plays which survive either complete or in substantial fragments. (...) Aélion has taken the widest possible view of her task. Her main purpose is to show that Euripides was not an adversary or a critic of Aeschylus, but used him as a basis even when he elaborated the material in a different way, and her method is to summarise and compare what is known of the plays of both poets in which there is even the remotest possibility of influence. A.'s industry is formidable, her knowledge of hte secondary literature, evidenced in numerous footnotes and bibliographical notes, extensive, and the book written with admirable clarity; but the project is fraught with difficulties which A. does not wholly succeed in solving. (...) This book does (...) contain much that is interesting and valuable, but does not succeed in showing that Euripides made systematic use of Aeschylus. Similarities are often attributable to both poets drawing on the same body of myth, and where Euripides is demonstratably aware of Aeschylus he often seems sharply opposed to him.' (MICHAEL LLOYD in The Classical Review (New Series), 1984, pp.18-19). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9782251326153