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Euripides: Medea
William AllanEuripides' "Medea" is one of the greatest and most influential Greek tragedies. This book outlines the development of the Medea myth before Euripides and explores his uniquely powerful version from various angles.
Euripides: Phoenissae
EuripidesThis volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911.
Granddaughter of the Sun: A Study of Euripides' Medea
Preview... Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, Berkeley/Los Angeles: 76–100. Pietro Pucci (1980) The Violence of Pity in Euripides' Medea, Ithaca, NY. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (1993) Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women, Ithaca, NY .
Euripides: Medea
EuripidesComprehensive edition of this classic play aimed at second-year students and above.
Euripides: 'Helen'
EuripidesDetailed commentary, suitable for students, on one of the most skilful and original Greek tragedies.
Hecuba
EurípidesThis volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911.
Euripides: Hecuba
Helene P. FoleyEuripides, Hecuba / by Helene P. Foley. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4725-6907-3 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4725- 6906-6 (pbk.) 1. Euripides. Hecuba. 2. Greek drama—History and criticism. I. Title .
Bakkhai
Euripides"Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai examines both the horror and the beauty of the religious ecstasy that Dionysos brings to Thebes.
Bacchae
EuripidesEuripides' Bacchae, the last of the surviving Greek tragedies, was first performed in 405 BC in the annual competition for tragic drama, where it won first prize.
The Agon in Euripides
Michael LloydThis book is a study of the agon, or formal debate, in Euripides' tragedies.
Elektra
EuripidesEuripides takes the old myth of Orestes' and Elektra's revenge on their mother Klytemnestra for their father Agamemnon's murder and reinterprets it in realistic, human terms.
Euripides and the poetics of sorrow: art, gender, and ...
Charles SegalThe result deepens our understanding of Euripides' art and of tragedy itself. "Several interconnected themes unify this book.
Euripides, 3: Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, The Phoenician ...
EuripidesWhat man would murder his daughter to help a fleet get out to sea, or give his wife over to death in his stead? The tragedies in this Penn Greek Drama Series volume are filled with such dramatic conflicts.
Medea
EuripidesOne of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Euripides' masterwork 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 — ...
Euripides' Alcestis
Euripides"This edition also includes a glossary, an index, a bibliography, and grammatical reviews designed specifically for students of Greek language and culture in their second year of university study or third year of high school.
The Bacchae and Other Plays
EuripidesThrough 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 ...
Euripides: Ten Plays
EuripidesA modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The ...
The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context
Donald J. MastronardeIn this book Professor Mastronarde draws on the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, as well as the fragmentary remains of his lost plays, to explore key topics in the interpretation of the plays.
Orestes and Other Plays
EuripidesIn Orestes, the most popular of the tragedian's plays in the ancient world, Euripides explores theemotional consequences of Orestes' murder of his mother on the individuals concerned, and makes the tale resonate with advice to Athens about ...
Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women
Nancy Sorkin RabinowitzWhat should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time.
Women on the Edge: Four Plays
EuripidesWomen on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, ...
Euripides: Hippolytus. Suppliant women. Helen. Electra. Cyclops
PreviewOne of the Penn Greek Drama Series, this volume, the second of four projected for the series of plays by Euripides, contains three tragedies plus HELEN, which could be called a romantic comedy, and CYCLOPS, the so-called satyr play of ...
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