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A two-volume selection from the fragments, with facing-page translation, introductions, and notes, was published by Collard, Cropp, Lee, and Gibert; [123] [124] as were two Loeb Classical Library volumes derived from them; [125] [126] and there are critical studies in T. B. L. Webster's older The Tragedies of Euripides, [127] based on what were ...
Euripides, The Suppliants, translated by E. P. Coleridge in The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Volume 1. New York. Random House. 1938. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Euripides's play has been explored and interpreted by playwrights across the centuries and the world in a variety of ways, offering political, psychoanalytical, feminist, and many other original readings of Medea, Jason, and the core themes of the play. [1] Medea, along with three other plays, [a] earned Euripides third prize in the City Dionysia.
The historical Edgar Allan Poe has appeared as a fictionalized character, often in order to represent the "mad genius" or "tormented artist" and in order to exploit his personal struggles. [149] Many such depictions also blend in with characters from his stories, suggesting that Poe and his characters share identities. [ 150 ]
Although all actors and choruses were male, female protagonists and choruses were common in tragedy (especially in Euripides). [47] In general, tragedy played with gender dynamics, representing feminine men and masculine women. This was so common as to be a defining feature of the genre. [48] However, the female characters of tragedy are deeply ...
Important works of literature, from 'The Masque of the Red Death' to 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' include moral lessons that should have prepared us for Trump.
Euripides' Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) is a tragedy probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC.A version of the myth of the house of Atreus, Euripides' play reworks important aspects of the story found in Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy (especially the second play, Libation Bearers) and also in Sophocles' Electra, although the relative dating of Euripides' and ...
Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē) is a drama by Euripides about Helen, first produced in 412 BC for the Dionysia in a trilogy that also contained Euripides' lost Andromeda. The play has much in common with Iphigenia in Tauris , which is believed to have been performed around the same time period.