Euripides
62) Iphigeneia
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Greek
Description
Believed to be cursed by a powerful and angry goddess for his slaying of a deer, Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to remove the curse which has prevented the winds from blowing and his ships from moving forward on their mission to Troy.
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume LCL 484
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 11
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific brutality that both women and children undergo during war. Yet, in the war's aftermath, this brutality is challenged and a new...
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 9
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 495
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
69) Bakkhai
Author
Language
English
Description
Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides' electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and god.
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 10
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 506
Publisher
Harvard University Pr
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
This is the translation of the Euripides play about the princess Iphigeneia who narrowly avoided death by sacrifice at the hands of her father, Agamemnon. She was saved by the goddess Artemis, to whom the sacrifice was to be made, and swept off to Tauris. As a priestess at the goddess' temple, she has the gruesome task of ritually sacrificing foreigners who land on King Thoas's shores. It has much in common with another of the Greek playwright's work,...
77) Euripides I
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Euripides I contains the plays "Alcestis," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea," translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles," translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus," translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management...
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 504
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English