Studies In Euripides Orestes

Author : J.R. Porter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Orestes (Greek mythology)
ISBN : CHI:21155420

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The Orestes of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Greek Tragedy in New Translati
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Donald Mastronarde
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781939926104

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Preliminary Studies on the Scholia to Euripides by Donald Mastronarde Pdf

"This work presents five studies that are parerga to the online edition of Euripidean scholia (EuripidesScholia.org), for which the release of a much more complete sample covering Orestes 1-500 is planned for 2018. The first chapter reviews the achievements and shortcomings of previous editions of Euripidean scholia and argues for a more comprehensive treatment of this and similar corpora of scholia and for the importance of glosses. It assesses the few surviving traces in the scholia of views attributed to philologists and commentators working from Hellenistic times to early Byzantium. The second chapter illuminates a genre of annotation termed here "teachers' scholia," prominent in many of the younger manuscripts, but also present to a small degree in the oldest witnesses. Evidence for the teaching of Ioannes Tzetzes related to Euripides is gathered more completely than previously, as is that for Maximus Planudes. The third chapter offers an edition and commentary on a miscellany of teachers' notes on Hecuba first attested in 1287 but clearly copied from an older source, and treats some other unusual notes related to Hecuba carried in Palaeologan sources. The connection of this material with middle Byzantine sources (especially Tzetzes and Eustathius) is assessed. The fourth chapter marshals the evidence for the dating of the Marcianus graecus 471 (M) in the 11th (and not the 12th) century and provides palaeographic and codicological details. The fifth chapter argues that any possibly Planudean connections to Vaticanus graecus 909 (V) are to be found only in the cursive notes added more than a generation after the codex was produced (probably ca. 1250-1280, as proposed by Nigel Wilson). The hands of the two scribes who worked in tandem on V are described, and the distribution of their work documented."--Site web de l'éditeur.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electra (Greek mythology)
ISBN : OCLC:63594727

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Euripides Orestes by Euripides Pdf

Author : Matthew Ephraim Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Orestes (Greek mythology)
ISBN : UCLA:31158007671463

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The Orestes by Euripides Pdf

Author : H. M. Roisman,C. A. E. Luschnig
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780806186306

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Euripides' Electra by H. M. Roisman,C. A. E. Luschnig Pdf

Among the best-known Greek tragedies, Electra is also one of the plays students of Greek often read in the original language. It tells the story of how Electra and her brother, Orestes, avenge the murder of their father, Agamemnon, by their mother and her lover. H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig have developed a new edition of this seminal tragedy designed for twenty-first-century classrooms. Included with the Greek text are a useful introduction, line-by-line commentary, and other materials in English, all intended to support intermediate and advanced undergraduate students. Electra's gripping story and almost contemporary feel help make the play accessible and interesting to modern audiences. The liberties Euripides took with the traditional myth and the playwright's attitudes toward the gods can inspire fruitful classroom discussion about fifth-century Athenian thought, manners, and morals. Roisman and Luschnig invite readers to compare Euripides' treatment of the myth with those of Aeschylus and Sophocles and with variant presentations in epic and lyric poetry, later drama, and modern film. The introduction also places the play in historical context and describes conventions of the Greek theater specific to the work. Extensive appendices provide a complete metrical analysis of the play, helpful notes on grammar and syntax, an index of verbs, and a Greek-English glossary. In short, the authors have included everything students need to support and enhance their reading of Electra in its original language.

Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1227 pages
File Size : 52,6 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.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019730757

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Metrical analysis of the Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnissæ and Medea of Euripides, according to the text of Porson by Euripides Pdf

Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Euripides,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Laura K. McClure
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:28694758

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The Orestes of Euripides by Euripides Pdf