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Euripides
Four of Euripides’ tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson.
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An up-to-date edition of one of the most widely read and performed Greek tragedies. Offers new interpretative suggestions and provides detailed guidance on problems of language and dramaturgy. Ideal for…
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Euripides,Euripides
Offers translations of Euripides’ Medea , The Children of Heracles , Andromache , and Iphigenia among the Taurians , fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of…
Dr Matthew Wright
Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture. Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a…
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P J Finglass
A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Dana?. This…
Hanna M. Roisman
The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides' Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It…
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as the author. The New York Times Book Review calls her work personal, necessary, and important, while Publishers Weekly…
Features four tragedies, all of which focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred.
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Sotiris Manolopoulos
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the 'tragic' reading of politics, presented by Euripides in his play, The Suppliant Women, to the contemporary world. This book allows for a deeper…
Euripides' Hippolytus is a fascinating play about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary, designed for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek, helps…
Full scholarly edition of the only complete poetic text from the fourth century BC, which bridges the classical age of tragedy and Hellenistic poetry and is a tragi-comic play paralleling…
A new play text edition of Euripides’ great tragedy to coincide with the National Theatre’s major new production directed by Katie Mitchell in November-March 2007/8.
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Deals with the aftermath of the Trojan War for the defeated survivors, as Andromache shows Hector’s widow as a trophy of war in the house of her Greek captor, and…
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An accessible prose translation that is accompanied by a general introduction and individual prefaces to each play.
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An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once…
Euripides,John Davie,Richard Rutherford
Covers such plays as: Phoenician Women , Orestes , Bacchae , Iphigenia at Aulis , and the Rhesus .
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Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles
Covers three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists. This title presents a play-by-play introduction, key dates and a guide to pronunciation.
P. J. Finglass
Reconstructing the Classics collects across three volumes over ninety papers by P. J. Finglass (Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol, and formerly Professor of Greek…
Robert Browning
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Michael Davis
Michael Davis revisits questions of interpretation in Greek tragedy emerging in the thought of the late Seth Benardete. While this is not the book Benardete would have written, it wrestles…
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Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a…
Professor Robert Holschuh Simmons
What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens…
. Euripides
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND ENDURING OF GREEK TRAGEDIES
Euripides Euripides
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Euripide
Theatre d'Euripide: traduction nouvelle, precedee d'une notice biographique et litteraire, accompagnee de notes explicatives et suivie des notes de J. Racine sur le theatre d'Euripide (3e edition) / par Emile…
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Euripides and Sophocles,Euripides
Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson)…
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Alceste / Euripide; [expliquee litteralement, traduite en francais et annotee par F. de Parnajon, …] Date de l'edition originale: 1888
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale…
The Ion of Euripides - Now First Translated into English, in its Original Metres, and Supplied… is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor…
Euripidis Tragoediae V2 (1819) est liber qui continet duodecim tragoedias Euripidis, poetae Graeci, quae in volumine secundo sunt collectae. Tragoediae hae sunt: Andromache, Hecuba, Supplices, Electra, Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Medea…
Euripidis Alcestis est fabula tragica, scripta ab Euripide, poeta Graeco antiquo, anno 438 a.C. Fabula narrat de Alcestide, uxor Admeti regis Thessaliae, qui moritur, sed Alcestis, propter amorem suum, voluntarie…
Euripidis Fabulae Quatuor is a collection of four plays by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, originally published in 1857. The plays included in this collection are Hippolytus Coronifer, Alcestis, Iphigenia…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Euripides Tragoediae Sex: Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Hecuba, Phoenissae, Orestes (1869) is a collection of six Greek tragedies written by Euripides. The book includes the plays Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Hecuba, Phoenissae…
CHORUS The furious Mimas Here blazes in the volley’d fires: and there Another earth-born monster falls beneath The wand of Bacchus wreathed with ivy round, No martial spear. But, as…
CLYTAEMNESTRA: I am not so void of sense; bethink thee, I shall go through this as well, when I lead the maiden from the chamber to the sound of the…
