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Medea by Euripides
Category: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.
Medea by Euripides
Category: Non-Fiction
Medea has been betrayed. Her husband Jason has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies t ...Show more
Medea by Euripides
Category: Classics | Series: Drama Classics S.
A play of psychologically and physically murderous vengeance, Medea is one of the most powerful and perennially produced of all ancient drama.
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
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
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle 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 fe ...Show more
Ten Plays by Euripides
Category: Non-Fiction
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 tim ...Show more
The Bacchae by Euripides
Category: Classics
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
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Classics
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
The Trojan Women by Euripides; Diskin Clay (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Classics | Series: Focus Classical Library
A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await their fate. Stalking the antiseptic confines of it ...Show more