Euripides Helen

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521836905
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides: 'Helen' written by Euripides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed commentary, suitable for students, on one of the most skilful and original Greek tragedies.

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides. Helena, ed. with intr., notes and critical appendix by C.S. Jerram written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107073758
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen written by C. W. Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his detailed study of Euripides' play, Helen, C. W. Marshall expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and Classical performance.

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263539
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Ruby Blondell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Helen of Troy has its origins in ancient Greek epic and didactic poetry, more than 2500 years ago, but it remains one of the world's most galvanizing myths about the destructive power of beauty. Much like the ancient Greeks, our own relationship to female beauty is deeply ambivalent, fraught with both desire and danger. We worship and fear it, advertise it everywhere yet try desperately to control and contain it. No other myth evocatively captures this ambivalence better than that of Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda, and wife of the Spartan leader Menelaus. Her elopement with (or abduction by) the Trojan prince Paris "launched a thousand ships" and started the most famous war in antiquity. For ancient Greek poets and philosophers, the Helen myth provided a means to explore the paradoxical nature of female beauty, which is at once an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction, yet also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. Many ancients simply vilified Helen for her role in the Trojan War but there is much more to her story than that: the kidnapping of Helen by the Athenian hero Theseus, her sibling-like relationship with Achilles, the religious cult in which she was worshipped by maidens and newlyweds, and the variant tradition which claims she never went to Troy at all but was whisked away to Egypt and replaced with a phantom. In this book, author Ruby Blondell offers a fresh look at the paradoxes and ambiguities that Helen embodies. Moving from Homer and Hesiod to Sappho, Aeschylus, Euripides, and others, Helen of Troy shows how this powerful myth was continuously reshaped and revisited by the Greeks. By focusing on this key figure from ancient Greece, the book both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a fascinating perspective on our own." - Besedilo s knjižnega zavihka.

Author : Norman Austin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720708
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom written by Norman Austin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy, but remained blameless, while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy. Comparing the functions of contradictory images of Helen, Austin helps to clarify the problematic relations between beauty and honor and between ugliness and shame in ancient Greece. Austin first discusses the canonical account of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Helen as the archetype of woman without shame. He next considers different versions of Helen in the Homeric tradition. Among these, he shows how Sappho presents Helen as an icon of absolute beauty while she defends her own preference of eros over honor and her choice of woman as the object of desire. Austin then turns to three major authors who repudiated the traditional Helen of Troy: the lyric poet Stesichorus and the dramatist Euripides, who embraced the alternative myth of Helen's phantom; and the historian Herodotus, who claimed to have found in Egypt a Helen story that dispenses with both Helen and the phantom. Austin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, though none have endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition.

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316195279
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen written by C. W. Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic structure to show how assumptions held by the ancient audience shaped meaning in Helen and to demonstrate how Euripides' play draws extensively on the satyr play Proteus, which was part of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Structure is presented not as a theoretical abstraction, but as a crucial component of the experience of performance, working with music, the chorus and the other plays in the tetralogy. Euripides' Andromeda in particular is shown to have resonances with Helen not previously described. Arguing that the role of the director is key, Marshall shows that the choices that a director can make about role doubling, gestures, blocking, humour, and masks play a crucial part in forming the meaning of Helen.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674996007
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragmenta written by Euripides and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. In this fifth volume of the new Loeb Classical Library Euripides, David Kovacs presents a freshly edited Greek text and a faithful and deftly worded translation of three plays. For his Helen the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous Helen never went to Troy but spent the war years in Egypt, falsely blamed for the adulterous behavior of her divinely created double in Troy. This volume also includes Phoenician Women, Euripides' treatment of the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, a novel retelling of Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother, Clytaemestra. Each play is annotated and prefaced by a helpful introduction.

Author : Whitney Jennings Oates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Greek Drama written by Whitney Jennings Oates and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Morales
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589344
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone Rising written by Helen Morales and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé. The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. Many of today's harmful practices, like school dress codes, exploitation of the environment, and rape culture, have their roots in the ancient world. But in Antigone Rising, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they are told -- and read -- in different ways. Through these stories, whether it's Antigone's courageous stand against tyranny or the indestructible Caeneus, who inspires trans and gender queer people today, Morales uncovers hidden truths about solidarity, empowerment, and catharsis. Antigone Rising offers a fresh understanding of the stories we take for granted, showing how we can reclaim them to challenge the status quo, spark resistance, and rail against unjust regimes.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624664822
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ion, Helen, Orestes written by Euripides and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed translator of Euripidean tragedy in its earlier and more familiar modes, Diane Arnson Svarlien now turns to three plays that showcase the special qualities of Euripides’ late dramatic art. Like her earlier volumes, Ion, Helen, Orestes offers modern, accurate, accessible, and stageworthy versions that preserve the metrical and musical form of the originals. Matthew Wright’s Introduction and notes offer illuminating guidance to first-time readers of Euripides, while pointing up the appeal of this distinctive grouping of plays.