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Euripides
1) Medea
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The influence of Euripides on the development of the dramatic genre cannot be overstated. Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus he is regarded as one of the three great Greek tragedians from classical antiquity. One of the most important of Euripides' surviving dramas is "Medea", the story of its title character, the wife of Jason of the Argonauts, who seeks revenge upon her unfaithful husband when he abandons her for a another bride. Set in Corinth...
2) The Bacchae
Author
Series
Publisher
Applause
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the Athens' City Dionysia dramatic competitions in 441 BC. He would be awarded this honor three more times in his life, and once more posthumously. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic, and display radical rejection of classical decorum and rules. In 408 BC, Euripides left war-torn Athens for Macedonia, upon the invitation of King Archelaus, and there he spent his last...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Played out against the ruined walls of Troy, The Trojan Women - one of the most powerful indictments of war ever written - grimly recounts the murder of the innocent, the desecration of shrines, and the enslavement of Trojan women. Hippolytus, the second drama, depicts the struggles to master human passion, struggles symbolized by gods who behave like irresponsible humans. These two classics of human self-examination are essential reading for anyone...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
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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Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
7) 10 plays
Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Of all the ancient Greek dramatists, Euripides has the most to say to modern readers. His principle themes- the oppression of women, the folly of war, and the tensions between freedom and order, faith and reason, dogma and fact- are as relevant today as they were millennia ago. The plays continue to shock, inspire, and remind us what it means to be human."--Back cover.
8) Euripides
Author
Series
Complete Greek tragedies volume 4
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c1958.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
14) The Trojan women
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
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...
15) Elektra
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Desolation and despair reign supreme in the kingdom of Mycenae. The great Agamemnon has been brutally murdered; his son Orestes has fled and his daughter Electra has been imprisoned within the walls of the castle. All hope seems lost until the sacred oracle speaks and replaces Electra's broken spirit with an unquenchable desire for justice and bloody vengeance.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This anthology volume includes some of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, from Chicago's nine-volume Complete Greek tragedies. The third edition updates the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are famous, and new introductions for each play provide essential information about its first production, plot,...
17) Medea
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
Danish
Description
Medea seeks vengeance upon her husband Jason after he deserts her for an advantageous marriage.
18) Medea
Publisher
Video Arts
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the tragedy by Euripides.
19) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...
20) Karmen Geï
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Karmen escapes prison through her lesbian relationship with the warden. She then wrecks the marriage and career of a police corporal by making him her lover and co-conspirator in a smuggling ring. She abandons the corporal who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her. Contains much singing and dancing.
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