Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full.Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism. But he was also the literary a...

Euripides V includes the plays “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “Iphigenia in Aulis,” translated by Charles R. Walker; “The Cyclops,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and “Rhesus,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of emine...

Euripides IV contains the plays “Helen,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “The Phoenician Women,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and “Orestes,” translated by William Arrowsmith.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, ...

Euripides II contains the plays “Andromache,” translated by Deborah Roberts; “Hecuba,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Suppliant Women,” translated by Frank William Jones; and “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of emin...

This file includes 10 tragedies by Euripides, literally translated by Theodore Buckley. The plays are: HECUBA, ORESTES, PHOENISSAE (The Phoenician Virgins), MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, ALCESTIS, BACCHAE, HERACLIDAE, IPHIGENIA IN AULIS, and IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS. According to Wikipedia: "Euripides (ca. 480 BCE406 BCE) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, altho...

Euripides I contains the plays “Alcestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Medea,” translated by Oliver Taplin; “The Children of Heracles,” translated by Mark Griffith; and “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists ...

Es de noche. En el campamento troyano, las hogueras griegas brillan con inusitada intensidad. ¿Preparan los aqueos la huida? ¿O traman una nueva ofensiva? Héctor, impaciente, quiere atacar de inmediato. Pero Eneas lo persuade: primero hay que enviar un espía. Dolón se ofrece. Su recompensa será la más codiciada: los caballos inmortales de Aquiles. Pero en la oscuridad, Odiseo y Diomedes se infiltran en el campamento troyano. Y no solo encontrarán a Dolón. También a Reso, el joven rey traci...

Dioniso, hijo de Zeus y de la mortal Sémele, regresa a Tebas, su patria terrenal, para imponer el culto que le es debido. Pero Penteo, joven rey de la ciudad, se niega a reconocerlo. Lo persigue, lo encarcela y lo insulta. Pronto descubrirá que no lucha contra un hombre, sino contra la locura que el dios mismo siembra en el corazón de las mujeres: su propia madre, Ágave, y las bacantes que, poseídas, lo despedazarán en la montaña. Las Bacantes es la obra más religiosa y a la vez más violen...

Euripides III contains the plays “Heracles,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Trojan Women,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; and “Ion,” translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert managem...

Euripides' "Elektra" är en djupt psykologisk och dramatisk tragedi som utforskar teman som hämnd, identitet och moraliska konflikter. Pjäsen utspelar sig efter mordet på Agamemnons av hans hustru Klytaimnestra, och fokuserar på Elektra, hans dotter, och hennes hämndlystna sökande efter rättvisa. Med en stil som kombinerar lirisk poesi och sträng realitet, ger Euripides sina karaktärer ett komplext inre liv, där de framställs med både styrka och sårbarhet, vilket skapar en tät och känslomäs...

Electra, hija del rey Agamenón, vive humillada en una choza, casada con un labrador que respeta su virginidad. Su madre, Clitemnestra, y el amante de esta, Egisto, asesinaron a su padre a su regreso de Troya y gobiernan ahora en Argos. Su hermano Orestes, desterrado desde niño, regresa en secreto para cumplir el mandato de Apolo: vengar la muerte de Agamenón. Eurípides toma el antiguo mito de los Atridas y lo transforma en una tragedia áspera, casi sin grandeza heroica, donde la venganza s...

Esclava, concubina y madre en tierra extranjera: Andrómaca, viuda de Héctor, sobrevive cautiva en el palacio de Neoptólemo, el hijo de Aquiles. Su única protección es su hijo Moloso, pero su presencia despierta los celos de Hermíone, la esposa legítima, hija de Menelao. Aprovechando la ausencia de Neoptólemo, padre y esposo ausente, Hermíone y su padre conspiran para asesinar al niño y a la mujer troyana. Solo la intervención del anciano Peleo y la huida de Hermíone con Orestes —quien, ade...