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In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that The Trojan Women, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music. Yet it is one of the greater dramas of the elder world. In one situation, with little movement, with few figures, it flashes out a great dramatic lesson, the infinite pathos of a successful wrong. It has in it the very soul of the tragic....
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The Floating Press
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English
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The Ancient Greek Euripides wrote the play Hippolytus, a tragedy based on the myth of the son of Theseus, Hippolytus. The gods play a central part in Hippolytus, and Aphrodite and Artemis appear at the start and end respectively. It is thought they were also present throughout, as two statues onstage.
The Bacchae, which is also called The Bacchantes is another of Euripides' tragedies. It is based on the myth of King Pentheus
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1963
Physical Desc
204 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Euripides, along was Sophocles, and Aeschylus, is largely responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as an innovator of the Greek drama. Collected here are six of Euripides' tragedies in prose translation by Edward...
6) Three plays
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Penguin classics volume L31
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
[1953]
Physical Desc
165 p. ; 19 cm.
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English
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New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
78 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm
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English
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"Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose...
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The Modern Library
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 826 pages : maps, illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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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.
15) Greek tragedies
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University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
3 volumes ; 22 cm
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English
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 5
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
c1952
Physical Desc
ix, 649 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
17) The Trojan women
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Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
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English
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After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the enduring dignity...
18) Medea
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2009], c1982
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
Description
The Kennedy Center production of Euripides' great classic about a woman driven by emotion beyond the brink of rationality. Medea is abandoned by her husband Jason so he can marry the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, and is exiled by Creon as a dangerous foreigner. She exacts revenge by causing the deaths of Creon and his daughter and by murdering her own and Jason's two children before escaping into exile in Athens
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
vi, 234 pages ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
This selection of nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reports, satire, and fiction--giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture. The selections span twelve centuries, from Homer to Saint Jerome. The texts and translations are reproduced as they appear in Loeb volumes.--From publisher description.