Heracles and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

Heracles and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick

Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae - Four Plays (Euripides)(Paperback / softback)

Euripides III: Heracles/The Trojan Women/Iphigenia Among the Taurians/Ion (Euripides)(Paperback)

'Euripides III' contains the plays Heracles, translated by William Arrowsmith; The Trojan Women, translated by Richmond Lattimore; Iphigenia among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson; and Ion, translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a

Euripides I: Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus (Euripides)(Paperback)

Euripides I contains the plays 'Alcestis,' translated by Richmond Lattimore; 'Medea,' translated by Oliver Taplin; 'The Children of Heracles,' translated by Mark Griffith; and 'Hippolytus,' translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a

The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the

The Bacchae and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play,

The Bacchae and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play,

Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Euripides)(Paperback)

Euripides, wrote Aristotle, 'is the most intensely tragic of all the poets'. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient

Medea and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods

The Complete Euripides: Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to

Ion/Orestes/Phoenician Women/Suppliant Women (Euripides)(Paperback)

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and political themes. Ion vividly portrays the role of chance in human life and the dynamics of family relationships.In Orestes, the most popular of the

Fragments: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments (Euripides)(Pevná vazba)

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient

Medea/Hippolytus/Electra/Helen (Euripides)(Paperback)

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 female characters, whether heroines of

The Complete Euripides: Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays (Burian Peter)(Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (Euripides)(Paperback)

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

Euripides IV: Helen/The Phoenician Women/Orestes (Euripides)(Paperback)

Euripides IV contains the plays 'Helen,' translated by Richmond Lattimore; 'The Phoenician Women,' translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and 'Orestes,' translated by William Arrowsmith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek

Euripides II: Andromache/Hecuba/The Suppliant Women/Electra (Euripides)(Paperback)

'Euripides II' contains the plays Andromache, translated by Deborah Roberts; Hecuba, translated by William Arrowsmith; The Suppliant Women, translated by Frank William Jones; and Electra, translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous

Euripides V: Bacchae/Iphigenia in Aulis/The Cyclops/Rhesus (Euripides)(Paperback)

Euripides V includes the plays 'The Bacchae,' translated by William Arrowsmith; 'Iphigenia in Aulis,' translated by Charles R. Walker; 'The Cyclops,' translated by William Arrowsmith; and 'Rhesus,' translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a

Lysistrata and Other Plays (Aristophanes)(Paperback / softback)

Euripides Bacchae (Euripides)(Paperback)

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions

The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Lefkowitz Mary)(Paperback)

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world's most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most

Suppliant Women. Electra. Heracles (Euripides)(Pevná vazba)

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, are four of his plays. Suppliant

Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba (Euripides)(Pevná vazba)

One of Athens' greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here are four of his plays in a new Loeb Classical Library edition. Hippolytus triumphed in the Athenian dramatic competition of

Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager (Euripides)(Pevná vazba)

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 bce survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient