The Phoenissae
Title | The Phoenissae PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Greek drama (Tragedy). |
ISBN |
Euripides the Phoenissae
Title | Euripides the Phoenissae PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1824 |
Genre | |
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The Phoenissae of Euripides
Title | The Phoenissae of Euripides PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Phoenician Women
Title | The Phoenician Women PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | Greek Tragedy in New Translati |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0195077083 |
Here, Peter Burian and Brian Swann recreate Euripides' The Phoenician Women, a play about the fateful history of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus, King of Thebes. Their lively translation of this controversial play reveals the cohesion and taut organization of a complexdramatic work. Through the use of dramatic, fast-paced poetry--almost cinematic it its rapidity of tempo and metaphorical vividness--Burian and Swann capture the original spirit of Euripides' drama about the deeply and disturbingly ironic convergence of free will and fate. Presented with acritical introduction, stage directions, a glossary of mythical Greek names and terms, and a commentary on difficult passages, this edition of The Phoenician Women makes a controversial tragedy accessible to the modern reader.
The Tragedies of Seneca
Title | The Tragedies of Seneca PDF eBook |
Author | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Latin drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN |
The Gorgon's Severed Head
Title | The Gorgon's Severed Head PDF eBook |
Author | Cecelia Eaton Luschnig |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2018-07-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 900432979X |
The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae.
Agenorid Myth in the ›Bibliotheca‹ of Pseudo-Apollodorus
Title | Agenorid Myth in the ›Bibliotheca‹ of Pseudo-Apollodorus PDF eBook |
Author | Johanna Astrid Michels |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 910 |
Release | 2022-11-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110610523 |
The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the first systematic commentary on an essential selection, the Cretan and Theban myths in Bibl. III.1-56, and by presenting an in-depth analysis of the text. In so doing, this volume closes a gap in current research, from which a philological commentary is entirely missing. The main part of the study focuses on various aspects of composition and organization by addressing structuring principles, narratorial interventions, and the author's method and sources. It lays to rest persistent misconceptions about the representative character of the Bibliotheca's myths, the author's merits, and his source use, all of which have divided the scholarship to this date. In addition, it provides an update on the author, date, purpose and readership, text history, and book division of the Bibliotheca.