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Pages in category "Plays by Euripides" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alcestis (play)
Euripides has been hailed as a great lyric poet. [66] In Medea, for example, he composed for his city, Athens, "the noblest of her songs of praise". [67] His lyrical skills are not just confined to individual poems: "A play of Euripides is a musical whole...one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones."
Pages in category "Plays based on works by Euripides" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle: Antigone (c. 442 BC) Oedipus Rex (c. 429 BC) Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC, posthumous) Ajax (unknown, presumed earlier in career) The Trachiniae (unknown) Electra (unknown, presumed later in career) Philoctetes (409 BC) Euripides (c. 480–406 BC): Alcestis (438 BC) Medea (431 BC) The Heracleidae (Herakles Children ...
These include the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Roman adaptations of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In total, there are eighty-three mostly extant plays, forty-six from ancient Greece and thirty-seven from ancient Rome. Furthermore, there are six lost plays with extensive ...
Operas based on Medea (Euripides play) (6 P) Pages in category "Operas based on works by Euripides" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Euripides depicted the brutality he witnessed during his life into the play. [5] The play's title is significant and unique due to Greek tragedies either being named after a main character, the chorus or an event within the play. The play does not do this. Because of its title, Children of Heracles stands out. [6]
Works based on Medea (Euripides play) (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Adaptations of works by Euripides" This category contains only the following page.