Euripides Orestes

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141961989

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Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides Pdf

Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of war. The Children of Heracles holds a mirror up to contemporary Athens, while Andromache considers the position of women in Greek wartime society. In The Suppliant Women, the difference between just and unjust battle is explored, while Phoenician Women describes the brutal rivalry of the sons of King Oedipus, and the compelling Orestes depicts guilt caused by vengeful murder. Finally, Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides' last play, contemplates religious sacrifice and the insanity of war. Together, the plays offer a moral and political statement that is at once unique to the ancient world, and prophetically relevant to our own.

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199552436

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Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides, Pdf

This is the fourth volume of Euripides plays in new translation. The four plays it contains, Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, explore ethical and political themes, contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism with justice, the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Orestes (Greek mythology)
ISBN : CHI:21155420

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The Orestes of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472521262

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Euripides: Orestes by Matthew Wright Pdf

"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, "Orestes" is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because "Orestes" does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'Greek tragedy' should be. This book makes "Orestes" accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy. If we are to appreciate what is unusual about the play, we have to think in terms of its impact on its original audience. What did they expect from a tragedy, and what would they have made of "Orestes"?

Author : J.R. Porter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329249

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Studies in Euripides' Orestes by J.R. Porter Pdf

This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The Orestes is found to present a curious mélange of early and late Euripidean features, resulting in a drama where the tragic potential of Orestes' predicament becomes lost amid the moral, political and situational chaos that dominates the late Euripidean stage. Throughout, emphasis is placed on reading the Orestes in light of Greek stage conventions and the poet's own practice. Of particular interest are: an original examination, in light of Greek rhetorical practice, of Orestes' agon with Tyndareus; an analysis of the Phrygian's monody as a cunning hybrid of Timothean nome and traditional messenger speech; and a re-evaluation of the play's troubling deus ex machina.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Greek Tragedy in New Translati
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780195096590

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Orestes 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 Herbert Golder and the late William Arrowsmith, 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. Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy.

Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472521255

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Euripides: Orestes by Matthew Wright Pdf

"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, "Orestes" is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because "Orestes" does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'Greek tragedy' should be. This book makes "Orestes" accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy. If we are to appreciate what is unusual about the play, we have to think in terms of its impact on its original audience. What did they expect from a tragedy, and what would they have made of "Orestes"?

Author : Aeschylus,Sophocles,Euripides
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1429922923

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An Oresteia by Aeschylus,Sophocles,Euripides Pdf

A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes—giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murder of her daughter Iphegenia by her husband Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra's actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's death with the help of his sister Elektra. In the end, Orestes, driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family, and Elektra are condemned to death by the people of Argos, and must justify their actions—signaling a call to change in society, a shift from the capricious governing of the gods to the rule of manmade law. Carson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up the plays to a modern audience. In addition to its accessibility, the wit and dazzling morbidity of her prose sheds new light on the saga for scholars. Anne Carson's Oresteia is a watershed translation, a death-dance of vengeance and passion not to be missed.

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408148822

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Euripides Plays: 4 by Euripides, Pdf

"Euripides, the Athenian playwright who dared to question the whims of wanton gods, has always been the most intriguing of the Greek tragedians. Now, with translations aimed at the stage rather than the page, his restless intellect strikes the chord This volume contains some of Euripides' most famous works: Elektra, which reverses previous notions of 'heroic' behaviour; Orestes, in which almost all the characters are driven by base motives of cowardice or revenge; Iphigeneia in Tauris who presumes her brother Orestes dead and her mother Klytemnestra and stepfather Aigisthos still living, is visited by a surprise guest. Elektra, Oresetes and Iphigeneia in Tauris were performed together as Agamemnon's children at The Gate Theatre in 1995 and show the consequences of Agamemnon's "sacrifice" of his daughter at the start of the Trojan war.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600085413

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The Orestes of Euripides, with brief notes by F.A. Paley by Euripides Pdf

Author : Matthew Ephraim Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : 1472539788

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Euripides by Matthew Ephraim Wright Pdf

"'Orestes' was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, 'Orestes' is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because 'Orestes' does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'Greek tragedy' should be. This book makes 'Orestes' accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy. If we are to appreciate what is unusual about the play, we have to think in terms of its impact on its original audience. What did they expect from a tragedy, and what would they have made of 'Orestes'?"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electra (Greek mythology)
ISBN : OCLC:63594727

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Euripides Orestes by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Orestes of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Orestes (Greek mythology)
ISBN : UCLA:31158007671463

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The Orestes by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015056203832

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Euripides' Orestes: Commentary by Euripides Pdf