books about: euripides     books:     Euripides      Collected Plays: Volume 1 (Includes a Dance of the Forests/the Swamp Dwellers/the Strong Breed/the Road/the ... Wole Soyinka Oxford University Press, USA, 1973 Splendid This, Volume 1 of the collected plays by Nigerian-born Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, contains, The Dance of the Forests, The Swamp Dwellers, The Strong Breed, The Road, and The Bacchae of Euripides (Soyinka's translation), but not The ...             Euripides I: Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Euripides University Of Chicago Press, 1955 Euripides plays about Hercules, Jason, and Theseus Volume I of "The Complete Greek Tragedies" of Euripides offers the playwrights rather unique view on some of the greatest heroes of Greek Mythology: Hercules, Jason, and Theseus. "Alcestis? (translated by Richard Lattimore) is the oldest surviving play of Euripides and ...             Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Euripides University Of Chicago Press, 2002 Very fine version The three plays presented in "Euripides V" are all important works: Electra, The Phoenician Women, and The Bacchae. The editors are David Grene (who translated and provided the Introduction to "The History" by Herodotus) and Richmond Lattimore. Both are well ...             Euripides IV: Rhesus, The Suppliant Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Euripides University Of Chicago Press, 1968 another rare play This fourth book in the Euripides series gives the reader another fairly rare play: Rhesus. Readable translation that is easily affordable with good general introductions. A bit too conservative in translation at points.             Medea (Dover Thrift Editions) Euripides Dover Publications, 1993 It's all Greek to me. Wonderful play, great translation. Collier really makes ancient Greek understandable and enjoyable. Great edition.             Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, The Bachae Euripides W. W. Norton, 1974             Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Euripides University Of Chicago Press, 2002 rare translation This edition of the Euripides plays contains the rarely read "Cyclops", not a great play but important nevertheless to a complete understanding of Euripides or Greek drama in my opinion. Just as the other translations in this series is rather conservative, so too is ...             Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Euripides University Of Chicago Press, 1992 Nicely organized The third in this series of translation of Greek drama has the same basic flaws as the others: conservative translation. But also like the others it is very readable and affordable. I also liked the fact that these plays were organized so that the stories are shown ...             Bakkhai (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Euripides Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 Foolish Pentheus resists the worship of the god Dionysus "Bakkhai" ("The Bacchae") was written by Euripides when he was living in Macedonia in virtual exile during the last years of his life. The tragedy was performed in Athens after his death as part of a trilogy that included one extant play, "Iphigenia at Aulis," and one ...             Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books Classics) Euripides NYRB Classics, 2008 simple, clear, beautiful I've owned copies of Euripides all my life and never got around to reading them, but when Grief Lessons came across my desk last week, I was compelled to read straight through it. The title alone speaks of Carson's special talent for reaching the heart of the matter. ...             Euripides: Bacchae (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama) Euripides Cambridge University Press, 2000 One of the best translations out there I am a classical history major with a focus on poetry and drama. I have actually read Bacchae in Attic Greek and I have to say that I find this translation to be one of the most fluid and natural of any that I have ever read. I would highky recommend this to anyone ...             Medea Euripides Filiquarian, 2007 Medea, from Greek mythology, was he daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, Niece of Circe and the wife of Jason. Media is known in most Greek stories as an enchantress who would become the subject of of this tragedy by Euripides. The Euripides version differentiates itself from other tellings because it doesn't depict Medea is a crazy person who ...             The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 3: Euripides (Complete Greek Tragedies) Euripides University Of Chicago Press, 1992 Antigone! This is a reply to another post. Do you really think that Euripedes is arguing that Antigone is right? Sure, her brother was dishonored and should have been buried, but doesn't she have a martyr complex? I think so because, she does everything so publicly then brags ...             Five Great Greek Tragedies (Thrift Edition) Sophocles, Euripides, ... Dover Publications, 2004 fast and speedy this year i decided to order my books from on line and save, oh i don't know, about 200.00 dollars, i needed this specific book, saw that it was readily available and affordable...so tah-dah..i ordered it and i received it just in time for school...             Ten Plays by Euripides Euripides Bantam Classics, 1984 Ten plays by Euripides, the first playwright of democracy Euripides was the youngest and the least successful of the great triad of Greek tragic poets. Criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, his plays were ridiculed by Aristophanes in "The Frogs." His ...          products you might be interested in search for books andromache, cambridge, heracleidae, hippolytus, phoenician, translations      toavi.com    web we recommend Ten plays by Euripides, the first playwright of democracy randomly chosen book: Tri evreya ili uteshenie v slezakh