Euripides: Children of Heracles

Euripides: Children of Heracles
Title Euripides: Children of Heracles PDF eBook
Author Florence Yoon
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 177
Release 2020-01-09
Genre Drama
ISBN 1350076767

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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.

Heracles

Heracles
Title Heracles PDF eBook
Author Euripides
Publisher
Pages 144
Release 1914
Genre Greek drama (Tragedy).
ISBN

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Children of Heracles

Children of Heracles
Title Children of Heracles PDF eBook
Author Euripides
Publisher
Pages 519
Release 1995
Genre
ISBN 9780674995338

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Suppliant Women

Suppliant Women
Title Suppliant Women PDF eBook
Author Euripides
Publisher Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Pages 100
Release 1995
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780195045536

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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.

Heracles and Other Plays

Heracles and Other Plays
Title Heracles and Other Plays PDF eBook
Author Euripides
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 432
Release 2002-06-27
Genre Drama
ISBN 0141960930

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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.

Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature

Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature
Title Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature PDF eBook
Author Thomas M. Falkner
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 284
Release 1989-07-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791400319

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This volume explores the significance of old age in Greek and Latin poetry and dramatic literature, not just in relation to other textual and historical concerns, but as a cultural and intellectual reality of central importance to understanding the works themselves. The book discusses a wide range of authors, from Homer to Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Euripides; from Horace to Vergil, Ovid, and beyond. Classical scholarship on these texts is enriched by a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from such fields as anthropology, social history, literary theory, psychology, and gerontology. The contributions examine the many and complex representations of old age in classical literature: their relation to the social and psychological realities of old age, their connection with the author’s own place in the human life course, their metaphorical and symbolic capacity as poetic vehicles for social and ethical values.

Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols)

Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols)
Title Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols) PDF eBook
Author Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher BRILL
Pages 1227
Release 2020-08-31
Genre History
ISBN 9004435352

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Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.