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 x
... plays are everywhere apparent in the visual culture of the Mediterranean . Homer apart , no author stimulated the ... play became extremely fashionable . Bacchae underlies Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara , and is now frequently performed ...
... plays are everywhere apparent in the visual culture of the Mediterranean . Homer apart , no author stimulated the ... play became extremely fashionable . Bacchae underlies Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara , and is now frequently performed ...
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... plays as the cryptic ' voice of Euripides ' . Aristophanes and the other contemporary Athenian comic poets , who wrote what is now known as ' Old Comedy ' , caricatured Euripides as a cuckolded greengrocer's son , but their portrait ...
... plays as the cryptic ' voice of Euripides ' . Aristophanes and the other contemporary Athenian comic poets , who wrote what is now known as ' Old Comedy ' , caricatured Euripides as a cuckolded greengrocer's son , but their portrait ...
Page xiii
... plays , and possibly ninety- two . Nineteen have been transmitted from antiquity under his name . Of these , Rhesus is probably not by Euripides himself , and Cyclops is a satyr play ( a comic version of a heroic myth sporting a chorus ...
... plays , and possibly ninety- two . Nineteen have been transmitted from antiquity under his name . Of these , Rhesus is probably not by Euripides himself , and Cyclops is a satyr play ( a comic version of a heroic myth sporting a chorus ...
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... plays including Bacchae and Iphigenia at Aulis ; it may be that the very existence of the ' Macedonian exile ' tradition reveals Euripides ' anti- democratic sympathies . On the other hand the lack of evidence for a political career ...
... plays including Bacchae and Iphigenia at Aulis ; it may be that the very existence of the ' Macedonian exile ' tradition reveals Euripides ' anti- democratic sympathies . On the other hand the lack of evidence for a political career ...
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... plays were expected to befit this audience : insulting Athens at the Dionysia may have been a prosecutable offence ... play called Theristai , ' Reapers ' : the other two competitors were Euphorion ( Aeschylus ' son ) , who won first ...
... plays were expected to befit this audience : insulting Athens at the Dionysia may have been a prosecutable offence ... play called Theristai , ' Reapers ' : the other two competitors were Euphorion ( Aeschylus ' son ) , who won first ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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