95 results for '"Euripides'

Euripides' Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth's tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wife. This edition of the play is intended for students...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams presents this fluent and accessible version of the Athenian playwright Euripides's great tragedy.Based on the Greek myth of the god Dionysus's punishment of...

Afrodite, offesa per la poca devozione di Ippolito, figlio di Teseo, devoto unicamente ad Artemide, fa innamorare di lui la matrigna Fedra. La nutrice confida ad Ippolito la causa della disperazione...

A discussion of the text or interpretation of passages from six plays by Euripides edited by the author for Oxford Classical Texts: Supplices, Electra, Heracles, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion.

In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing,...

In this often neglected play, Euripides explores the contrast between myth and reality by portraying the story of Heracles' murder of his wife and children. In treating this act the dramatist...

Text: English, Greek (translation)

A masterly translation of one of the greatest of Greek dramas.Their lives are the briefest concession,My concession, a nod of permission.As if I dozed off and dreamed a little.I take a dream-and...