Ion Paperback - 1996
by Euripides; W. S. Di Piero (Translator); Notes by Peter Burian
From the rear cover
One of Euripides' late plays, Ion tells the story of Kreousa, queen of Athens, and her son by the god Apollo. Apollo raped Kreousa; she secretly abandoned their child, assuming thereafter that the god had allowed him to die. Ion, however, is saved to become a ward of Apollo's temple at Delphi. In the play, Kreousa and her husband Xouthos go to Delphi to seek a remedy for their childlessness; Apollo, speaking through his oracle, gives Ion to Xouthos as a son, enraging the apparently still childless Kreousa. Mother tries to kill son, son traps mother at an altar and is about to do her violence; just then, Apollo's priestess appears to reveal the birth tokens that permit Kreousa to recognize and embrace the child she thought she had lost forever. Ion must accept Apollo's duplicity along with his benevolence toward his son. Disturbing riptides of thought and feeling run just below the often shimmering surface of this masterpiece of Euripidean melodrama. Despite Ion's "happy ending", the concatenation of mistaken identities, failed intrigues, and misdirected violence enacts a gripping and serious drama. Euripides leaves the audience to come to terms with the shifting relations of god and mortals in his complex and equivocal interpretation of myth.
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- Title Ion
- Author Euripides; W. S. Di Piero (Translator); Notes by Peter Burian
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date 1996-06-27
- Features Glossary, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780195094510 / 0195094514
- Weight 0.21 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.33 x 0.25 in (20.29 x 13.54 x 0.64 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects Tragedies, Ion (Greek mythology) - Drama
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95034977
- Dewey Decimal Code 882.01
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Citations
- Library Journal, 07/01/1996, Page 115
- Publishers Weekly, 03/18/1996, Page 65
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