Euripides I

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107601169
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis written by Euripides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. Numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Iphigeneia at Aulis is suitable for students of Classical Civilisation and Drama. Features include a full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Iphigeneia at Aulis is aimed at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226309347
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides I written by Euripides and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides I contains the plays “Alcestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Medea,” translated by Oliver Taplin; “The Children of Heracles,” translated by Mark Griffith; and “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920564
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medea and Other Plays written by Euripides and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. Medea is a towering figure who demonstrates Euripides' unusual willingness to give voice to a woman's case. Alcestis is based on a magical myth in which Death is overcome, and The Children of Heracles examines conflict between might and right, while Hippolytus deals with self-destructive integrity. Translated by JOHN DAVIE

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.U4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hippolytos written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Niall W. Slater
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780934742
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides: Alcestis written by Niall W. Slater and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is presented with the opportunity to have someone die in his place. Alcestis compresses within itself both tragedy and its apparent reversal, staging in the process fascinating questions about gender roles, family loyalties, the nature of heroism, and the role of commemoration. Alcestis is Euripides's earliest complete work and his only surviving play from the period preceding the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Currently dominant post-structuralist models of Greek tragedy focus on its 'oppositional' role in the discourse of war and public values. This study challenges not only this politicised model of tragic discourse but also both traditional masculinist and more recent feminist readings of the discourse and performance of gender in this remarkable play. The play survived in the performance repertoire of antiquity into the Roman period. Euripides' version strongly influenced the reception of the myth through the middles ages into the Renaissance, and the story enjoyed a lively afterlife through opera. Alcestis' contested reception in the last two centuries charts our changing understanding of tragedy. Niall Slater's study explores the reception and afterlife of the play, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedies of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Oranje
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900432805X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides' Bacchae written by Hans Oranje and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to investigate what it was Euripides intended to convey to the theatre-going public of his day when he wrote his most exciting and most gruesome play, the Bacchae. The meanings which are to be attached to the action of a play are woven by an audience, both during and after the performance, into a single dramatic experience, labelled in this book as 'audience response'. After some introductory chapters dealing with the history of the interpretation of the Bacchae and with the theory of audience response, the main part of the book is devoted to a detailed analysis of the action of the play (chapters 4 and 5), and to a study of Dionysus in his various apects in Athenian life and in his appearances in earlier literature and on the tragic stage. The discussion of the choruses concentrates on the choruses' repeated utterances about cleverness and wisdom, which form the core of the Dionysian propaganda of the play. The most immediate results of this new interpretation of the Bacchae are that the widely-accepted view of Pentheus as a dark puritan, a man possessed by the Dionysian qualities of his divine opponent, proves to be untenable, and that that which in the past has been rightly called the overriding theme of the play - the god's epiphany - also contains the poet's most serious and ironical discussion of divinity and of man's treatment of it. The problems of the Greek text are given full discussion, mainly in the nots and appendices. In many cases new solutions are proposed; some new problems are however added.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ioanna Karamanou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110938731
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides Danae and Dictys written by Ioanna Karamanou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides' Danae and Dictys are two of the most important and influential treatments of a popular tragic myth-cycle, which is unrepresented among extant plays. Moreover, they are early treatments of major Euripidean plot-patterns that anticipate and illuminate more familiar works in the corpus, both extant and fragmentary. This is the first full-scale study of the two plays, which sheds light on plot-patterns, key themes and aspects of Euripidean dramatic technique (e.g. his rhetoric, imagery, stagecraft), as well as matters of reception and transmission of both tragedies, by taking into account newly related evidence. The cautious recovery of the two lost plays based on the available evidence and the detailed commentary on their fragments seek to complement our knowledge of Euripidean drama by contributing to an overview and more comprehensive picture of the dramatist's technique, as the extant corpus represents only a small portion of his oeuvre.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchae and Three Other Plays written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian Tragedy had all but ended with the death of Euripides and in particular with his Bacchae, which is included in this volume and which is often praised by scholars as the best tragedy ever written. This was the very last play he wrote and he did so while he was being hosted by King Archelaus of Macedonia. The play was staged the following year, in 405 BC. Of the surviving nineteen plays (he wrote over ninety) twelve are almost entirely concerned with women. This volume is entirely devoted to that subject: women and the role they play in the lives of men, of their politics and of their daily lives. Women, to Euripides, show the virtues and the ills of a city, his city, his Athens.