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Films based on Medea (Euripides play) (7 P) Pages in category "Films based on works by Euripides" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
In 2009, director Brad Mays, along with Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, stage director Richard Schechner, and actor Alan Cumming was invited to discuss Euripides' The Bacchae as part of a web series Invitation to World Literature, which officially launched on Annenberg Media's educational website in September, 2010. [7]
Amphion and Zethus are said to have established the fortifications of Thebes. [6] For Greeks of the Classical age, the contrast between the lifestyles of the two became the most salient element in the narrative; in Euripides' Antiope the best-recalled scene was where the two brothers in debate contrasted their active and contemplative lives. [13]
The Bacchae (/ ˈ b æ k iː /; Ancient Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes / ˈ b æ k ə n t s, b ə ˈ k æ n t s,-ˈ k ɑː n t s /) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.
TV movie, Canada Les Perses: 1961 TV movie, France Aeschylus: 1967 TV movie, Finland I Persiani: 1967 TV movie, Italy The Forgotten Pistolero: 1969 Italy Agamemnon: 1973 Belgium Orestea: 1975 Italy Atreides: 1979 TV movie, Greece Oresteia: 1979 TV mini-series, UK Prometheus Retrogressing: 1998 Le Rêve Plus Fort que la Mort: 2002 France Die ...
Amphion became a great singer and musician after his lover Hermes taught him to play and gave him a golden lyre. Zethus became a hunter and herdsman, with a great interest in cattle breeding. As Zethus was associated with agriculture and the hunt, his attribute was the hunting dog, while Amphion’s - the lyre. [5]
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.
According to a biography written by the ancient historian Plutarch, after his defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, the head of Roman general and statesman Marcus Licinius Crassus was sent to the Parthian emperor Orodes II and used "as a prop, standing in for the head of" [3] Pentheus in a production of Euripides' The Bacchae.