This volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse...more details Format:Paperback Pages:248
This volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse...more details Format:Hardback Pages:248
"Andromache "takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Andromache has become a concubine to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus, bearing him a child...more details Format:Paperback
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing "Phoenician Women", "Bacchae", "Iphigenia at Aulis"...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. "Phoenician Women" portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization...more details Format:Paperback
Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
Dionysos, the God of wine and theatre has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus who refuses to recognise him or his rites. Remorselessly...more details Format:Paperback
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series. Always controversial, Euripides'' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterisation and their unorthodox dramatic style. This volume contains three of his finest tragedies: Medea...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterization and their unorthodox dramatic style. This volume contains three of his tragedies: "Medea"; "The Phoenician Women"; and "Bacchae". Format:Paperback Pages:156
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Euripides'' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright''s changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
'Euripides, the Athenian playwright who dared to question the whims of wanton gods, has always been the most intriguing of the Greek tragedians. Now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series. Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and the fate of the innocent. In Andromache...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series. A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has constantly challenged and intrigued audiences...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife (not an adulteress) who went to Egypt (not to Troy)...more details Format:Hardback Pages:432
This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife (not an adulteress) who went to Egypt (not to Troy)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot...more details Format:Paperback Pages:442
This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot...more details Format:Hardback Pages:442
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries...more details Format:Paperback Pages:124
The surviving text of the fragmentary Phaethon of Euripides depends chiefly on two sources: two pages from a Euripidean manuscript, written about A.D. 500...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911. Phoenissae is of special interest both as a specimen of late Euripidean dramaturgy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:681
Covers three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists. This title presents a play-by-play introduction...more details Format:Paperback
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War...more details Format:Paperback
"Heracles", "Iphigenia Among the Taurians", "Helen", "Ion", and "Cyclops": Of these plays, only "Heracles" truly belongs in the tragic sphere with its presentation of underserved suffering and divine malignity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
'A new translation of Euripides'' play in which the young hero, a foundling engaged to keep the Temple of Apollo tidy, meets the Queen of Athens. She tells him of ''a friend'' who was seduced by Apollo and had a baby which she abandoned. After a series of twists and turns...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
The story of Iphigenia, as told in the two plays of Euripides which bear her name, is so well known that it is hard to believe that it is in fact a piece of mythological syncretism which...more details Format:Paperback
Medea is the archetypal wronged women driven to despair. When uncontrollable anger is unleashed, the obs essed mind''s capacity for revenge knows no bounds ' Format:Paperback
A play of psychologically and physically murderous vengeance, Medea is one of the most powerful and perennially produced of all ancient drama. Format:Paperback
Medea has been abandoned by her husband. Jason, for whom she has sacrificed so much, has left her and their two children for a younger woman...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice' "Medea", in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
'A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary. The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also the most modern in his sympathies...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking and horrific of all the Greek tragedies. Dominating the play is Medea herself...more details Format:Paperback Pages:1
Ion Orestes The Phoenician Women The Suppliant Women In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty...more details Format:Paperback
The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets...more details Pages:160
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination...more details Format:Paperback
The plays in the "Drama Classics" series conform as set texts for the AQA and AS level courses up to 2004. Each of the world class pieces is introduced by an expert and the books are very compact and portable. Format:Paperback