Iphigenia Among The Taurians

Author : Poulheria Kyriakou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110926601
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris written by Poulheria Kyriakou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first major commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris to appear in English in more than 65 years. It offers detailed analysis of a fascinating play that scholars so far had considered mainly as a source of information about Athenian cult and viewed as a romantic adventure story with happy end. Apart from including sober assessments of textual, linguistic and metrical problems, the commentary sheds new light on the play’s treatment of myth, its intricate structure, presentation of character, and place in Euripides’ work. In particular it offers fresh insights into the play’s relationship to the literary tradition, especially its treatment of the crimes of the Pelopids, and its presentation of the complex, ambiguous relationship of humans and gods as well as that of Greeks and barbarians. Unlike most other tragedies, Iphigenia in Tauris does not feature any villain and avoids concentrating on past crimes and their corrosive influence on the characters’ present. The Taurians are not portrayed simply as savage and slow barbarians and Iphigenia, the most intelligent character, fails to transcend her limitations. Religion and cult in both myth and contemporary Athens are a mixture of traditional and invented elements and the play as a whole turns out to be an intriguing and unique experiment in Euripides’ career.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides Iphigenia Among the Taurians written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674995741
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trojan Women written by Euripides and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, is the text and translation of three of his plays. Trojan Women, a play about the causes and consequences of war, develops the theme of the tragic unpredictability of life. Iphigenia among the Taurians and Ion exhibit tragic themes and situations (the murder of close relatives). Each ends happily with a joyful reunion. As in the first three volumes of this edition, David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text and an admired new translation that, in the words of Greece and Rome, is "close to the Greek and reads fluently and well;" his introduction to each play and explanatory notes offer readers judicious guidance.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.BB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iphigenia Among the Taurians written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0195392892
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris written by Edith Hall and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book Iphigenia in Tauris written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isabelle Torrance
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350070076
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians written by Isabelle Torrance and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new student introduction to a Greek tragedy, Isabelle Torrance looks at what makes Iphigenia among the Taurians a successful tragedy in ancient Greek terms, and how dramatic excitement is achieved through the exotic setting, the cast of characters, and the chorus. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, and with students in mind, the central themes of ethnicity and gender relations are examined to show how Euripides manipulates established stereotypes. The play was one of Aristotle's favourites and his enthusiasm derived from the fact that, in spite of its ostensibly happy ending, the play presents the audience with an exquisitely constructed reversal of events: when Iphigenia recognizes that she has been about to sacrifice her long-lost brother, kin-murder is avoided and the plot turns into an escape drama. Other significant concerns of the play surround ritual and the gods, and these are discussed to highlight how the drama asks probing theological questions. Finally, the vast reception history of the play in a variety of genres, such as ancient comedy, Roman philosophy, European opera, and 20th century theatre, is sketched out from antiquity to the present day.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191584452
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus written by Euripides and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its `subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Iphigenia in Tauris written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proof, corrected, and inscribed "To Gladys, Fellow Olympian, from Hal, 1957." Witter Bynner's translation into English of Euripides's Iphigenia in Taurica.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Translation of the Iphigenia Among the Taurians of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: