Results for "Euripides"

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the KingFeaturing translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Niset... Read More about The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics)

Now in paperback.Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never... Read More about Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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 two children, Jason abandons her for a more ... Read More about Medea (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

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 suffering without... Read More about Medea and Other Plays

In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra and Euripides' Orestes. After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murder... Read More about An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides

«Guardaos de ella: es salvaje su ceño y su naturaleza abominable.»Tras regresar de la Cólquide con el vellocino de oro, Jasón seduce a la hija del rey Eetes, Medea, y contrae matrimonio con ella. Sin embargo, cuando recalan en Corinto y la abandona por la hija del rey Creonte, Medea urde una de las ... Read More about Medea (Spanish Edition)