Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Title | Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780199979257 |
Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings and exquisite poetry - these features have historically made Euripides' 'Iphigenia in Tauris' one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. With this book, Edith Hall provides a much-needed cultural history of this play, giving as much weight to the impact of the play on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature as on its manifestations since the discovery of the sole surviving medieval manuscript in the 1500s.
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Title | Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Hall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2013-01-10 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0195392892 |
This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.
Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus
Title | Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 1999-01-28 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0191584452 |
This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its `subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature.
Iphigenia in Tauris
Title | Iphigenia in Tauris PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Pages | 136 |
Release | 1793 |
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The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides
Title | The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Fathers and daughters |
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The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy. The conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles over the fate of the young woman presages a similar conflict between the two at the beginning of the Iliad. In his depiction of the experiences of the main characters, Euripides frequently uses tragic irony for dramatic effect.
The Complete Euripides
Title | The Complete Euripides PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Burian |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2010-06-30 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0199745552 |
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create 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. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference. The volume collects Euripides' Electra, an exciting story of vengence that counterposes suspense and horror with comic realism; Orestes, the tragedy of a young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father; Iphigenia in Tauris, a delicately written and beautifully contrived Euripidean "romance"; and Iphigenia at Aulis, a compelling look at the devastating consequence of "man's inhumanity to man."
Iphigenia in Tauris
Title | Iphigenia in Tauris PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Iphigenia (Greek mythology) |
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