Euripides Heracles

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783986473563

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Heracles by Euripides Pdf

Heracles Euripides - Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with effective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. But this suffering and divine malevolence are leavened by the friendship between Heracles and Theseus, which allows the hero to survive this final and most painful labor. The Heracles raises profound questions about the gods and mortal values in a capricious and harsh world.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy).
ISBN : UIUC:30112023786095

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Heracles by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3756274934

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Heracles by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199555093

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Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides, Pdf

The first three plays in this volume are typical of Euripides, filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is a satyr play, full of crude and slapstick humour. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humour while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101073247536

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Euripides Heracles by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:18130386

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Euripides by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 019504553X

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Suppliant Women by Euripides Pdf

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. Already tested in performance on the stage, this translation shows for the first time in English the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' Suppliant Women. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures with unremitting force the competing poles of the human psyche. The translators, Rosanna Warren and Stephen Scully, accentuate the contrast between female lament and male reasoned discourse in this play where the silent dead hold, finally, center stage.

Author : Laura K. McClure
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119257509

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A Companion to Euripides by Laura K. McClure Pdf

A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet’s enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre. Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides’ plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.

Author : Mark Ringer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498518444

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Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human by Mark Ringer Pdf

Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human presents the first single-volume reading in nearly fifty years of all of Euripides’ surviving plays. Rather than examining one or a handful of dramas in monograph or article form, Mark Ringer insists on the thematic and stylistic parallels that unite a diverse canon of works. Euripides is often referred to as the most modern of the three Ancient Greek tragedians, but in what way can the work of this fifth-century B.C. artist be claimed as modern? The multi-layered presentation of character is new within the context of Athenian Tragedy. The plays also reveal equal concern with the preservation and re-vitalization of tradition, especially with respect to the portrayal of the Olympian gods. Euripidean drama upholds tradition just as vigorously as it posits a new kind of realism in character portrayal in the Ancient Theatre. Euripidean drama fuses what was old with what was new in order to revitalize and perpetuate the art of tragedy. This book will be of interest to professionals and students in the fields of classics, Greek drama in translation or in the original Greek, theater studies, comparative literature, tragedy, and religion.

Author : Mary C. Stieber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004201149

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Euripides and the Language of Craft by Mary C. Stieber Pdf

This first in-depth account of Euripides' relationship with the visual arts demonstrates how frequently the tragedian used language to visual effect, whether through allusion or actual references to objects, motifs built around real or imaginary objects, or the use of technical terminology.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141960937

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Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides Pdf

Heracles/ Iphigenia Among the Taurians/ Helen/ Ion/ Cyclops: Of these plays, only 'Heracles' truly belongs in the tragic sphere with its presentation of underserved suffering and divine malignity. The other plays flirt with comedy and comic themes. Their plots are ironic and complex with deception and elusion eventually leading to reconciliation between mother and son in 'Ion', brother and sister in 'Iphigenia', and husband and wife in 'Helen'. The comic vein is even stronger in the satyric'Cyclops' in which the giant's inebriation and subsequent violence are treated as humorous. Together, these plays demonstrate Euripides' challenge to the generic boundaries of Athenian drama.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0856682330

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Euripides Heracles by Euripides Pdf

A new translation of one of Euripides' most neglected plays which takes as its subject the figure of Heracles and explores the nature of heroism and myth by portraying the story of the murder of his own wife and children. In treating this act the dramatist explores the boundaries of madnessand Heracles' painful emergence from this state to a bitter realisation of what he has done. A further contrast is drawn between the callous gods who cause the madness and the caring and loving support of human friends and remaining family. This edition attempts to bring out the human and qualities in the play and to defend its structure and dramatic power. The parallel Greek text is that of the new Oxford text with additional introduction, commentary and bibliography.

Author : R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521296846

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Sophocles: An Interpretation by R. P. Winnington-Ingram Pdf

A series of interconnected studies which analyze the seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles.

Author : Florence Yoon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350076761

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Euripides: Children of Heracles by Florence Yoon Pdf

This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now.

Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1227 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004435353

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Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols) by Andreas Markantonatos Pdf

Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.