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After the Trojan War - Women of Troy / Hecuba / Helen by Euripides; Kenneth McLeish (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Oberon Classics Ser.
Kenneth McLeish's stunning translations of three plays exploring the Trojan War, by one of the great Athenian dramatists. Each play shows the aftermath of war from a different standpoint. Women of Troy is set amongst a group of captives waiting to be shipped from Troy as slaves - Queen Hecuba is their c ...Show more
An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson by Anne Carson; Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides
Category: Fiction
In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides' 'Orestes' - giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murd ...Show more
Bacchae by Daniel (INT) Robin (TRN); Mendelsohn Euripides; Robertson
Category: Poetry & Plays
Bacchae by Euripides
Category: Classics
Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, has come to Thebes, and the women are streaming out of the city to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing in wild frenzy. The king, Pentheus, denouces this so-called 'god' as a charlatan. But no mortal can deny a god and no man can ever stand against Dionysu ...Show more
Bacchae by Euripides
Category: Young Adult | Series: Drama Classics S.
A title in the 'Drama Classics' series, this translation of Euripides' 'Bacchae' by Ken McLeish and Frederic Raphael will bring the ancient Greek text to life for a new generation of readers.
Bacchae and Other Plays - Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus by Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Edited and Translated by); Euripides
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with th ...Show more
Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in Athenian society, and Electra and Other Plays collects five plays demonstrating his talent for bringing to life their plight. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by John Davie with a ...Show more
Euripides 3 - Heracles Trojan Women ... by EURIPIDES
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Complete Greek Tragedies Ser.
Euripides III contains the plays "Heracles," translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Trojan Women," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Iphigenia among the Taurians," translated by Anne Carson; and "Ion," translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a ...Show more
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by Euripides; Anne Carson; R. F. Willetts; Glenn W. Most (Editor, Translator); Richmond Lattimore (Translator, Editor); Richmond Alexander Lattimore (Translator); Oliver Taplin; Mark Griffith (Editor, Translator); David Grene (Translator, Editor); Deborah H. Roberts; William Arrowsmith; Frank William Oliver Jones; Emily Vermeule
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Complete Greek Tragedies Ser.
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 ...Show more
Euripides: Medea by Euripides
Category: Education
Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama aims to eliminate the boundary between classics students and drama students. Euripides: Medea is the first in the series, and is aimed at A-level students in the UK and college students in North America. Features of the book include full commentary running alongs ...Show more
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
Grief Lessons by Euripides Euripides
Category: Classic Fiction
Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born neve ...Show more