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This text provides an analysis of three plays of Euripides, written at different stages in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, and in the representation of women and gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays, characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on ""Alcestis"" looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is particularly concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in ""Phoenissae"".

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C.A.E. Luschnig, Ph.D. (1972) in Classics, University of Cincinnati, is Professor of Classics at the University of Idaho. She has published books and articles on Euripidean drama (including Time Holds the Mirror, (Brill, 1988) and college textbooks for language learning.

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