Euripides

'What I intend to do is wrong, but the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason - that is the cause of all men's foulest crimes.' Medea is the archetypal wronged woman driven to despair. When uncontrollable anger is unleashed, the obsessed...

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND ENDURING OF GREEK TRAGEDIESAuthor: EuripidesISBN-10: 1722503858ISBN-13: 9781722503857Publisher: G&D MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d

World premiere of a new version of Euripides' classic Medea. Plays in London as part of the Almeida's Greek Season. Medea's marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides' seminal play cuts to the heart...

Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children. Plays for Performance Series.Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1566633214ISBN-13: 9781566633215Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage:...

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more...

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea. Having married Medea and fathered her...

No detailed description available for "Medea".Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 3598713347ISBN-13: 9783598713347Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)Published: 01/01/1992Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.56d

Medea has abandoned her family and homeland of Colchis for the love of the great hero Jason, and her loyalty, cunning and talents in witchcraft have repeatedly rescued him. Now, after bearing him two fine sons and settling in Corinth, Jason announces that Medea...

A Student Edition of Euripides' play, which accessibly unpacks Greek tragedy in its social context, issues of translation and adaptation, and performance approaches over the centuries. Euripides' play Medea was first produced in 431BC and continues to be produced globally to this day. Its...

This edition of the Greek classic play Medea by Euripides is translated by well-regarded scholar of classics Gilbert Murray, who offers the reader a vivid yet accurate interpretation of the play. Medea is imperiled as her husband plans to leave her for another woman....

This edition of the Greek classic play Medea by Euripides is translated by well-regarded scholar of classics Gilbert Murray, who offers the reader a vivid yet accurate interpretation of the play. Medea is imperiled as her husband plans to leave her for another woman....

The influence of Euripides on the development of the dramatic genre cannot be overstated. Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus he is regarded as one of the three great Greek tragedians from classical antiquity. One of the most important of Euripides' surviving dramas is "Medea",...

Euripides, along was Sophocles, and Aeschylus, is largely responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both...

Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods. Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 0140449299ISBN-13: 9780140449297Publisher: Penguin GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2003Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.75h x 5.09w x 0.65d

Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict...

In Greek mythology, Medea is a sorceress who was the daughter of King Ae tes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's...

Medea of Euripides, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and...

Experience the raw power of Euripides' "Medea," a cornerstone of classical literature and Greek tragedy. This enduring drama delves into the complexities of betrayal, revenge, and the devastating consequences of unchecked passion. "Medea" explores the plight of Medea, a figure of mythological significance, as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This book is a collection of five plays written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The plays included are Medea, Hecuba, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, and The Bacchantes. Medea tells the story of a woman who seeks revenge against her husband after he betrays...

This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets." In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to use his own words, "as they...

Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to...

Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sheila Murnaghan's new translation of the great Greek tragedy of betrayal, revenge, and murder, set in Corinth in the fifth-century B.C.E. - A full introduction and explanatory annotations by Sheila Murnaghan. - Ancient perspectives on the unforgettable plot...

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced...

Author: EuripidesISBN-13: 9798888560082Publisher: Broadway Play PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2025Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d

The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning...

The only surviving play of Euripides based on misfortunes of the Trojan generation, focusing on the character Rhesus, a minor character in Homer's Iliad.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as...

This translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' 'Suppliant Women'. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures the competing poles of the human...

Of Euripides' roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as one of the greatest innovators of Greek drama. Collected here are ten of Euripides' most important tragedies in prose translation by Edward P. Coleridge....

The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.For the first...

Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the Athens' City Dionysia dramatic competitions in 441 BC. He would be awarded this honor three more times in his life, and once more posthumously. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic,...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced...

Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance Series.Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1566630673ISBN-13: 9781566630672Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1996Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.50h...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced...

"The Bacchae of Euripides" is a cornerstone of classical literature, a powerful Greek tragedy exploring themes of religious ecstasy, divine vengeance, and the dangers of repressed desires. Penned by Euripides, this ancient Greek drama plunges into the world of Dionysus, the god of wine...

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 0140440445ISBN-13: 9780140440447Publisher: Penguin GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/1954Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.74h x...

Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while...

The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that...

The background represents the front of the Castle of Pentheus, King of Thebes. At one side is visible the sacred Tomb of Semel , a little enclosure overgrown with wild vines, with a cleft in the rocky floor of it from which there issues...

Authoritatively translated by scholar and academic Gilbert Murray, this edition of Bacchae by Euripides is of high quality, allowing the reader ease of interpretation. Famously premiered at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 B.C., this play is concerned with displaying two sides of human...

The background represents the front of the Castle of Pentheus, King of Thebes. At one side is visible the sacred Tomb of Semel , a little enclosure overgrown with wild vines, with a cleft in the rocky floor of it from which there issues...

Authoritatively translated by scholar and academic Gilbert Murray, this edition of Bacchae by Euripides is of high quality, allowing the reader ease of interpretation. Famously premiered at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 B.C., this play is concerned with displaying two sides of human...

The Bacchae of Euripides is a classic Greek tragedy that explores the conflict between reason and emotion, civilization and primal instincts. This edition, published in 1871, includes a revised text of the play and a detailed commentary by the author, Euripides. The play follows...

The Bacchae of Euripides is a classic Greek tragedy that tells the story of the god Dionysus and his revenge against the city of Thebes. This edition, published in 1871, includes a revised text and a commentary by the renowned scholar Euripides. The play...

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,...

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,...

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,...