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Bacchae by Euripides
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Category: Classics
Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, has come to Thebes, and the women are streaming out of the city to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing in wild frenzy. The king, Pentheus, denouces this so-called 'god' as a charlatan. But no mortal can deny a god and no man can ever stand against Dionysu ...Show more
Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in Athenian society, and Electra and Other Plays collects five plays demonstrating his talent for bringing to life their plight. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by John Davie with a ...Show more
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
Grief Lessons by Euripides Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
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 neve ...Show more
Iphigenia Among the Taurians Anne CarsonTrans. by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important," while Publishers Weekly says she is "nothing less t ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 ref ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 ref ...Show more
The Bacchae by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A new god has come to Thebes - Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy - and the women are streaming out of the city to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing in wild Bacchic frenzy. The king, Pentheus, is furious, denouncing this so-called 'god' as a charlatan, an insurgent - but no mortal can den ...Show more
The Bacchae And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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, whi ...Show more
The Bacchae and Other Plays - Ion; Women of Troy; Helen; The Bacchae by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volumecontains: Ion, Bacchae, Helen, Women of Troy Penguin Classics. Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary
Women of Troy by Euripides
26.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
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 members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more
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