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Alcestis - Euripides
Alcestis - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Alcestis is the earliest surviving play by Euripides. Alcestis, the devoted wife of King Admetus, has agreed to die in his place, and at the beginning of the play she is close to death. In the first scene, Apollo argues with Thanatos (Death), asking...
Orestes - Euripides
Orestes - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands. Despite Apollo’s earlier prophecy, Orestes finds himself tormented by Erinyes or Furies to the...
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
Iphigenia in Aulis is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. The Greek fleet is waiting at Aulis, Boeotia, with its ships ready to sail for Troy, but it is unable to depart due to a strange lack of wind. After consulting the seer Calchas,...
Electra (Murray Translation) - Euripides
Electra (Murray Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemnon. Married platonically to a good-hearted but poverty-stricken old peasant, she longs for the return of her...
The Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation) - Euripides
The Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as "perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written," "The Trojan Women," also known as "Troades," is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, it is...
Medea (Way Translation) - Euripides
Medea (Way Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a barbarian and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world...
The Bacchae - Euripides
The Bacchae - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agavë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast: Dionysus: mb Cadmus: Bruce...
Hippolytus - Euripides
Hippolytus - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by causing Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall in love with him, unleashing a chain of tragic events. (Summary...
The Bacchae - Euripides
The Bacchae - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Euripides' Bacchae tells of Dionysus, the God, come to the city of Thebes, there to drive mad those who refuse participation in his ecstatic rites, sing and dance on the mountainside and worship him as God. A family tale as well as a sacrificial...
Iphigenia in Tauris - Euripides
Iphigenia in Tauris - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Drama
Orestes, coming into Tauri in Scythia, in company with Pylades, had been commanded to bear away the image of Diana, after which he was to meet with a respite from the avenging Erinnyes of his mother. His sister Iphigenia, who had been carried away...
Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation) - Euripides
Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of hand that fooled all participants, substituted a deer for the daughter. Wafted magically away to the...
Alcestis (Way Translation) - Euripides
Alcestis (Way Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pherae who wins the friendship of the god Apollo. Apollo tricks the Eumenides into an agreement that when the...
Hecuba - Euripides
Hecuba - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Like Euripides' Trojan Women, this play takes place after the sack of Troy. Hecuba, widow of King Priam, suffers the loss of her daughter Polyxena and her son Polydore, and is hungry for revenge on those who have wronged her. Summary by Elizabeth...
Medea - Euripides
Medea - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry...
The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon...
Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation) - Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the Oresteia, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year in a...