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 ix
... sacrifice and murder : he made them all ' speak like human beings ' ( see Aristophanes , Frogs 1058 ) . The Greeks and Romans were passionate about Euripides . A char- acter in a comedy announced that he would be prepared to hang ...
... sacrifice and murder : he made them all ' speak like human beings ' ( see Aristophanes , Frogs 1058 ) . The Greeks and Romans were passionate about Euripides . A char- acter in a comedy announced that he would be prepared to hang ...
Page xiv
... sacrifice the princess confront notions of patriotism , pragmatism , expediency , and force majeure with the ideals of loyalty , equity , justice , and clemency . This ethical conflict echoes repeatedly the chilling debates in ...
... sacrifice the princess confront notions of patriotism , pragmatism , expediency , and force majeure with the ideals of loyalty , equity , justice , and clemency . This ethical conflict echoes repeatedly the chilling debates in ...
Page xv
... sacrifices and libations . Yet the Dionysia was also a political event . It affirmed the Athenian citizenry's collective iden- tity as a democratic body with imperial supremacy : front seats were reserved for distinguished citizens ...
... sacrifices and libations . Yet the Dionysia was also a political event . It affirmed the Athenian citizenry's collective iden- tity as a democratic body with imperial supremacy : front seats were reserved for distinguished citizens ...
Page xvi
... sacrificing shipwrecked sailors and the impale- ment of victims on stakes ( 38-41 , 1429-30 ) . It will probably never be known whether the savage tribes of this area really wor- shipped , as they do in Euripides , a goddess equivalent ...
... sacrificing shipwrecked sailors and the impale- ment of victims on stakes ( 38-41 , 1429-30 ) . It will probably never be known whether the savage tribes of this area really wor- shipped , as they do in Euripides , a goddess equivalent ...
Page xvii
... sacrificed , but is reunited in time with his long - lost sister , and makes good his escape to Greece . At times the play's ... sacrifice of Iphigenia by her Greek father , so long ago at Aulis . The parallelism between the fates of the ...
... sacrificed , but is reunited in time with his long - lost sister , and makes good his escape to Greece . At times the play's ... sacrifice of Iphigenia by her Greek father , so long ago at Aulis . The parallelism between the fates of the ...
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