Euripides

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The Suppliants is a play written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play tells the story of fifty women, known as the Danaids, who are seeking refuge in Argos after fleeing from their homeland in Egypt. The women are being pursued by their...

Euripides was one of the greatest playwrights of ancient Greece, and his tragedies remain some of the most powerful works of literature ever written. This volume includes several of his most well-known works, including Medea, The Bacchae, and The Trojan Women. With a new...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This book offers a literal and word-for-word translation of Euripides's tragic plays. Unlike many translations that sacrifice accuracy for readability, this book aims to capture the nuances and subtleties of the original Greek texts. With an introduction by Dr Giles, this book is a...

In this volume of Euripides tragedies you will find the pays Hecuba, Orestes, The Phoenician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacch , The Heraclid , Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris.Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1617204781ISBN-13: 9781617204784Publisher: SMK BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2011Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x...

The Trojan Women, also known as Troades, is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation...

This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific brutality that...

An unabridged edition from the translation by Gilbert Murray, to include comprehensive, explanatory notes at book's end.Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1603863699ISBN-13: 9781603863698Publisher: Watchmaker PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2010Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

The scene represents a battlefield, a few days after the battle. At the back are the walls of Troy, partially ruined. In front of them, to right and left, are some huts, containing those of the Captive Women who have been specially set apart...

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The center of the play is Hecuba, the exiled queen of Troy, and her sorrow at the death of her family and her city at the end of the Trojan War. In Euripides' play, the ladies of Troy are depicted after their city has...

Euripides (c. 480 - c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but...

Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist...

An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is...

Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1350358320ISBN-13: 9781350358324Publisher: Methuen DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2024Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.40h x 4.70w x 0.30d

Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1554814499ISBN-13: 9781554814497Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2021Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d

Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one...

A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await...

Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one...

These three ancient tragedies--Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba--dramatize the tragic fates of women in the wake of war. Euripides (480-406 BC) innovatively brought to Greek tragedy the inner lives of his characters. In these plays he delivers powerful portrayals of the suffering of both...

This translated version of Euripides' plays translated by Gilbert Murray is the only published version correctly rendered in the marketplace by Walter Schenck, a master craftsman of plays. Walter has achieved 23 genius ratings, plus international literary awards in a variety of categories. Walter...