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Greek Drama
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Euripides: Suppliant Women
edited, with an introduction, translation and commentary by James Morwood
First produced in the 420s BC, Suppliant Women centres around the actions of Theseus, King of Athens, who is persuaded by the Chorus of bereaved mothers to attack Thebes in order to obtain burial for their sons. The range of the play's debate is astonishing. It contains one of the Ur-texts of political theory. It explores social and religious themes. It deals with the concept of a just war, with the family, and with the role and behaviour of ...
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Euripides: Medea
edited with introduction, translation and commentary by Judith Mossman
Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons. Euripides' Medea is a compelling study of love turned to hatred and a rejected woman's burning desire for revenge. Its central, shocking, act of infanticide comes as the climax of a psychological ...
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Euripides: Ion
with an introduction, translation and commentary by K. H. Lee
Ion is generally regarded as one of Euripides' most attractive
plays. A skilfully organised plot, charming characters, exciting
situations and thought-provoking themes make it an excellent
introduction to the study of Greek drama generally and of
Euripides in particular. The introduction deals with Euripides'
adaptation of the myth of Ion, his treatment of the theme of
autochthony and his attitude to the seemingly ...
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Euripides: Orestes
by M. L. West
Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1987, reprinted 2007)
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Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by M J Cropp
Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported to the land of the Taurians. There she herself must perform human sacrifices as a priestess of Artemis in the local cult. Troy has now been sacked, and Agamemnon murdered by his wife and avenged by his son Orestes. With his mother's blood on his hands, ...
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Euripides: Heracles
edited by Shirley A. Barlow
A new translation of one of Euripides' most neglected plays which takes as its subject the figure of Heracles and explores the nature of heroism and myth by portraying the story of the murder of his own wife and children. In treating this act the dramatist explores the boundaries of madness and Hercles' painful emergence from this state to a bitter realisation of what he has done. A further contrast is drawn between the callous gods who cause the ...
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Euripides: Hecuba
With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by C. Collard
Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation. Then Hecuba learns of her sons' treacherous murder by a former ally; out of her terrible loss comes determination for revenge, which she claims as a right but how just is her horrific cruelty? How credible ...
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Euripides: Alcestis
With an introduction, Translation and Commentary by D. Conacher
The theme of Euripides' Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles' heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of "virtue rewarded", in this case twice rewarded. The Alcestis is the only tragedy which we know to have been produced in the position usually allotted (at the Athenian tragic festivals) to the semi-comic "satyrplay". Like a satyr-play, it has a happy ending but does ...
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Euripides: Electra
With Translation and Commentary by M. J. Cropp
King Agamemnon is long dead and his murderers rule at Argos. His son Orestes returns from exile to kill them his own mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. Thus he will release his sister Electra from oppression and reclaim his home and kingdom.This is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of the fifth century B.C. Aeschylus in his Libation-bearers (part of the ...
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Euripides: Phoenician Women
^BEuripides: Phoenician Women
with translation and commentary by E. Craik
This rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of Oidipous and his doomed family. With its brooding imagery, extravagant language, ebullient rhetoric and scenic display it is quintessential Euripides. With its broad, yet unified, thematic sweep it offers important points of comparison with other Theban plays and valuable insights into late fifth ...
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