Heracles And Other Plays

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199555095
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heracles and Other Plays written by Euripides, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three plays in this volume are typical of Euripides, filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is a satyr play, full of crude and slapstick humour. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humour while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141960930
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heracles and Other Plays written by Euripides and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heracles/ Iphigenia Among the Taurians/ Helen/ Ion/ Cyclops: Of these plays, only 'Heracles' truly belongs in the tragic sphere with its presentation of underserved suffering and divine malignity. The other plays flirt with comedy and comic themes. Their plots are ironic and complex with deception and elusion eventually leading to reconciliation between mother and son in 'Ion', brother and sister in 'Iphigenia', and husband and wife in 'Helen'. The comic vein is even stronger in the satyric'Cyclops' in which the giant's inebriation and subsequent violence are treated as humorous. Together, these plays demonstrate Euripides' challenge to the generic boundaries of Athenian drama.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781420945249
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heracles and Other Plays written by Euripides and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is responsible for the great rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as an innovator of the Greek drama. Here, in "Heracles and Other Plays," we witness Euripides at the heights of his dramatic power. "Heracles" dramatizes the story of the great Greek hero and his maddened desire to murder his wife and children. Saved by the graces of his friendship with Theseus, "Heracles" examines family, heroism, and violence in a masterful way. "Iphigenia Among the Taurians" is a thrilling tale set on the Black Sea which examines Greek and Barbarian cultures, "Ion" tracks the orphan Ion through a web of betrayal, revenge, and reconciliation. "Helen" picks up after the fall of Troy and liberally rewrites the standard myth of Helen, and lastly, "The Cyclops" expertly dramatizes the famed episode in Homer's "Odyssey." For the lover of drama and the ancient world, this collection is not to be missed-Euripides is seen here in all of his valor and brilliance.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920564
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medea and Other Plays written by Euripides and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. Medea is a towering figure who demonstrates Euripides' unusual willingness to give voice to a woman's case. Alcestis is based on a magical myth in which Death is overcome, and The Children of Heracles examines conflict between might and right, while Hippolytus deals with self-destructive integrity. Translated by JOHN DAVIE

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heracles written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emma Stafford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136519270
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herakles written by Emma Stafford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, concerning his life and death as well as his battles with myriad monsters and other opponents. In literature, he appears in our earliest Greek epic and lyric poetry, is reinvented for the tragic and comic stage, and later finds his way into such unlikely areas as philosophical writing and love poetry. In art, his exploits are amongst the earliest identifiable mythological scenes, and his easily-recognisable figure with lionskin and club was a familiar sight throughout antiquity in sculpture, vase-painting and other media. He was held up as an ancestor and role-model for both Greek and Roman rulers, and widely worshipped as a god, his unusual status as a hero-god being reinforced by the story of his apotheosis. Often referred to by his Roman name Hercules, he has continued to fascinate writers and artists right up to the present day. In Herakles, Emma Stafford has successfully tackled the ‘Herculean task’ of surveying both the ancient sources and the extensive modern scholarship in order to present a hugely accessible account of this important mythical figure. Covering both Greek and Roman material, the book highlights areas of consensus and dissent, indicating avenues for further study on both details and broader issues. Easy to read, Herakles is perfectly suited to students of classics and related disciplines, and of interest to anyone looking for an insight into ancient Greece’s most popular hero.

Author : Florence Yoon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350076767
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides: Children of Heracles written by Florence Yoon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Greek Tragedy in New Translations
ISBN 13 : 9780195045536
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suppliant Women written by Euripides and published by Greek Tragedy in New Translations. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, 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. Already tested in performance on the stage, this translation shows for the first time in English the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' Suppliant Women. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures with unremitting force the competing poles of the human psyche. The translators, Rosanna Warren and Stephen Scully, accentuate the contrast between female lament and male reasoned discourse in this play where the silent dead hold, finally, center stage.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195029147
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children of Herakles written by Euripides and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the effects of war within the state. Herakles, the legendary hero cursed from birth, was never permitted a triumphant homecoming. In this play, his descendants continue the effort to treturn home, seeking asylum from the persecution of the king who had imposed on Herakles the famous twelve labours. The Athenians defend them successfully, but the conclusion comments severley on the decline of the Athenian character.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140441298
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medea and Other Plays written by Euripides and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1963 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by John Davie with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford.