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Bacchae by Euripides
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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
Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Classics | 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
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
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Category: Poetry | 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
Medea by Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Drama Classics S.
A play of psychologically and physically murderous vengeance, Medea is one of the most powerful and perennially produced of all ancient drama.
Medea by Euripides
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Category: Classics
Medea has been betrayed. Her husband Jason has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies t ...Show more
Medea: A New Translation by Euripides; Charles Martin (Translator); A. E. Stallings (Introduction by); Charles Alexander Martin
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Category: Poetry
The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family--even sla ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
$17.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
The Bacchae and Other Plays - Ion; Women of Troy; Helen; The Bacchae by Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volumecontains: Ion, Bacchae, Helen, Women of Troy Penguin Classics. Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary
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