Euripides Trojan Women

Author : Euripides,Anne Carson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780811230803

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The Trojan Women: A Comic by Euripides,Anne Carson Pdf

A fantastic comic-book collaboration between the artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet Anne Carson, based on Euripides’s famous tragedy A NEW YORK TIMES BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021 Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides’s classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose mind is in another world).

Author : Euripides
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547356806

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The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Trojan women of Euripides" by Euripides. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585104352

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The Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy The Trojan Women about the consequences of war; the victors and the fate of those defeated in war. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Andromache (Legendary character)
ISBN : IOWA:31858031442100

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The Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770488106

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Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

Trojan Women tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek army. Through the tragedy’s central character, the matriarch Hecuba, this late play (415 BCE) demonstrates Euripides’ commitment to speaking on behalf of the less powerful and offers a scathing critique of Athenian behavior as the city fought its own disastrous war with its southern neighbor, Sparta. Trojan Women features well-known characters from Greek mythology, including the prophetess Cassandra, the gods Athena and Poseidon, and most notably, the infamous Helen, the cause of the war, who must defend herself to the husband she abandoned. This new translation features a text committed to accuracy and clarity, one developed in collaboration with actors for clear reading and performance. Appendices provide other important literary treatment of the women in the play, from Homer to Shakespeare.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191606182

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The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides Pdf

Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385546706

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The Women of Troy by Pat Barker Pdf

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

Author : Barbara Goff
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472521224

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Euripides: Trojan Women by Barbara Goff Pdf

Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, from the rape of Cassandra, through the triumphant self-exculpation of Helen, to the pitiful death of the child Astyanax, who is thrown from the walls of his ravaged city. Barbara Goff sets the play in its historical, dramatic and literary contexts, and provides a scene-by-scene analysis which brings out the pace and intellectual vigour of the play. The main themes are fully discussed, and the book also introduces readers to the issues that have divided critics, such as the extent to which the play responds to the historical events of the Peloponnesian War. The final chapter, which deals with the reception of the play, offers new insights into several modern works.

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849437127

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The Trojan Women by Euripides, Pdf

A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await their fate. Stalking the antiseptic confines of its mother and baby unit is Hecuba, the fallen Trojan queen, whilst the pregnant Chorus is shackled to her bed. But their grief at what has been before will soon be drowned out by the horror of what is to come, as the Greek lust for vengeance consumes everything – man, woman and baby – in its path. This caustic and radical new version of Euripides' classic tragedy comes from one of the UK's most exciting young poets, Caroline Bird. It is an intense, gripping look at what happens when the world collapses.

Author : Euripides,Gilbert Murray
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005118156

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The Trojan Women of Euripides by Euripides,Gilbert Murray Pdf

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350358331

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The Women of Troy by Euripides, Pdf

There's no decent way to say an indecent thing An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. First performed in 415BC, the play focuses on the human cost of war and the impact of loss. This new Student Edition of The Women of Troy includes a commentary and notes by Emma Cole, which looks at the Trojan War as represented in Greek literature and myth; the context in which Euripides was writing and within which the play was first performed; how it would have been originally staged and dramaturgical challenges met; as well as recent performance history of the play, including Katie Mitchell's iconic 2007 production at the National Theatre. Euripides' great anti-war play is published here in Don Taylor's classic translation.

Author : N. T. Croally
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521464900

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Euripidean Polemic by N. T. Croally Pdf

This book sets out to interpret Euripides' The Trojan Women in the light of a view of tragedy which sees its function, as it was understood in classical Athens, as being didactic. This function, the author argues, was carried out by an examination of the ideology to which the audience subscribed. The Trojan Women, powerfully exploiting the dramatic context of the aftermath of the Trojan War, is a remarkable example of tragic teaching. The play questions a series of mutually reinforcing polarities (man/god; man/woman; Greek/barbarian; free/slave) through which an Athenian citizen defined himself, and also examines the dangers of rhetoric and the value of victory in war. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, the author is able to offer a coherent view of a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean and tragic criticism, namely the relation of Euripides to the sophists, the pervasive self-reference and anachronism in Euripides, the problem of contemporary reference, and the construction and importance of the tragic scene. The book, which makes use of recent scholarship both in Classics and in critical theory, should be read by all those interested in Greek tragedy and in the culture of late fifth-century Athens.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1010586106

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The Trojan Women Of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

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Author : Euripides
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674995740

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Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, is the text and translation of three of his plays. Trojan Women, a play about the causes and consequences of war, develops the theme of the tragic unpredictability of life. Iphigenia among the Taurians and Ion exhibit tragic themes and situations (the murder of close relatives). Each ends happily with a joyful reunion. As in the first three volumes of this edition, David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text and an admired new translation that, in the words of Greece and Rome, is "close to the Greek and reads fluently and well;" his introduction to each play and explanatory notes offer readers judicious guidance.

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0801494311

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Trojan Women by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pdf

The play explores the folly of war, focussing on the trials of the royal family of the fallen city of Troy (Hecuba, Andromache and their children) as they mourn their past and current sufferings, and the continued assault of the Greeks on the survivors as they look to sacrifice two of the royal progeny, Polyxena and Astyanax.