Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, RhesusClarendon Press, 1999 M01 28 - 282 pages This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its `subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature. |
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Page xiv
... death or slavery— of the citizens of rebel states on both sides in the Peloponnesian War , including Mytilene , Melos , and Plataea . One certainty is that Euripides , intellectually , was a child of his time . Every significant field ...
... death or slavery— of the citizens of rebel states on both sides in the Peloponnesian War , including Mytilene , Melos , and Plataea . One certainty is that Euripides , intellectually , was a child of his time . Every significant field ...
Page xvii
... death by the people of Argos , tries to kill Helen , but is rescued from the angry mob by Apollo . In Iphigenia among the Taurians the same god diverts him to the Black Sea on a quite dif- ferent mission , the quest for the image of ...
... death by the people of Argos , tries to kill Helen , but is rescued from the angry mob by Apollo . In Iphigenia among the Taurians the same god diverts him to the Black Sea on a quite dif- ferent mission , the quest for the image of ...
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... death or suffering , and happy ending have led it to be classified as a tragicomedy , as a satyric tragedy owing much to the conventions of satyr play , as a burlesque , or as a ' romantic ' tragedy . Its enigmatic status has led it to ...
... death or suffering , and happy ending have led it to be classified as a tragicomedy , as a satyric tragedy owing much to the conventions of satyr play , as a burlesque , or as a ' romantic ' tragedy . Its enigmatic status has led it to ...
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Contents
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Note on the Translation | xl |
Iphigenia among the Taurians I | 1 |
Bacchae | 44 |
Iphigenia at Aulis | 84 |
Rhesus | 133 |
Explanatory Notes | 163 |
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Iphigenia Among the Taurians: Bacchae ; Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus Euripides No preview available - 2000 |
Iphigenia Among the Taurians: Bacchae ; Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus Euripides No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon AGAVE allies altar Apollo Argives Argos arms army Artemis Athenian Athens Atreus Bacchae Bacchic barbarian blood bring Bromius brother Cadmus Calchas chariot child CHORUS chants CHORUS sings Cithaeron CLYTEMNESTRA dance daughter death Diomedes Dionysiac Dionysus divine Dolon Drama enemy Euripidean Euripides eyes father friends girl goddess gods Greece Greek Tragedy ground hair hand happy head HECTOR Helen hold holy honour horses Iliad Iphigenia at Aulis IPHIGENIA sings kill king land look maenads marriage Menelaus MESSENGER mortals mother mountain murder Muses Nereus night Odysseus oracle ORESTES palace Peleus Pelops Pentheus Phoebus Phrygians play PYLADES Rhesus rites ritual sacrifice sail Seaford ships sister slaughtered sleep song sorrow speak spear stichomythia strangers Taurians tears Teiresias tell temple Thebes things THOAS Thracian thyrsus Trojan Troy Tyndareus victim wife women words wretched Zeus