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1) The Bacchae
Author
Language
English
Description
Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the Athens' City Dionysia dramatic competitions in 441 BC. He would be awarded this honor three more times in his life, and once more posthumously. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic, and display radical rejection of classical decorum and rules. In 408 BC, Euripides left war-torn Athens for Macedonia, upon the invitation of King Archelaus, and there he spent his last...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sheila Murnaghan's new translation of the great Greek tragedy of betrayal, revenge, and murder, set in Corinth in the fifth century B.C.E. A full introduction and explanatory annotations by Sheila Murnagan. Ancient perspectives on the unforgettable plot from Xenophon, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Seneca. Seminal essays on Medea by P.E. Easterling, Helene P. Foley, and Edith Hall.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose...
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