Women Of Trachis

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811209489
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Trachis written by Sophocles and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hercules returns home with a beautiful young princess, Daysair, his jealous wife, gives him a cloak treated with what she believes is a powerful love potion in hopes of winning him back.

Author : Brad Levett
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophocles: Women of Trachis written by Brad Levett and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles' "Women of Trachis" tells the tragic tale of Herakles return home from his labours. This companion to the play provides the social and historical background and employs a number of critical approaches to interpret the major thematic and dramatic issues of the play.

Author : Rachel Kitzinger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 1643150316
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Trachis written by Rachel Kitzinger and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation of Sophokles’ Women of Trachis is a living script in conversation with the past. Rachel Kitzinger, a Classicist, and Eamon Grennan, a poet, have captured the tones of ancient Greek in strong, swift English, making this translation suitable for a modern audience, whether as readers, listeners, or viewers. The unique addition of an audio recording of the text performed by Vassar College students contributes to the play's accessibility and vividness. Offering a picture both of domestic life and of the values and expectations that characterize Athenian men, Women of Trachis is a rich resource for those interested in gender roles in Greek antiquity.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030794977X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All That You've Seen Here Is God written by Sophocles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medical personnel around the world. Striking for their immediacy and emotional impact, Doerries brings to life these ancient plays, like no other translations have before.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wife of Heracles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781502805874
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women of Trachis written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women of Trachis (named for the Trachinian women who make up the chorus) dramatizes Deianeira's accidentally killing Heracles after he had completed his famous twelve labors. Tricked into thinking it is a love charm, Deianeira applies poison to an article of Heracles' clothing; this poisoned robe causes Heracles to die an excruciating death. Upon learning the truth, Deianeira commits suicide.

Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Greek Tragedies written by Marianne McDonald and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of six tragedies that have had an immense influence on Western drama. They depict archtypes of the human condition and eternal dilemmas of morality and loyalty.

Author : Victoria Wohl
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774052
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Commerce written by Victoria Wohl and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy—and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous? Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis. She shows how the attempts of women in these plays to become active subjects rather than passive objects of exchange inevitably fail. While these failures seem to validate male hegemony, the women's actions, however futile, blur the distinction between male subject and female object, calling into question the very nature of the tragic self. What the tragedies thus present, Wohl asserts, is not only an affirmation of Athens' reigning ideologies (including its gender hierarchy) but also the possibility of resistance to them and the imagination of alternatives.

Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949729
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theater of War written by Bryan Doerries and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophocles II written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: