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Ten Plays
by Euripides
Of all the ancient Greek dramatists, Euripides has the most to say to modern readers. His principle themes -- the oppression of women, the folly of war, and the tensions between freedom and order, faith and reason, dogma and fact -- are as relevant today as they were millennia ago. The plays continue to shock, inspire, and remind us what it means to be human.
EuripidesGreek drama (Tragedy)great_books_of_the_western_worldPentheus (Greek mythology)Alcestis (Greek mythology)Dionysus (Greek deity)
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERSignet Classics, published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
LANGUAGEEN
Euripides 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, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his.[1] Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides
4.0
Ten Plays
by Euripides
Of all the ancient Greek dramatists, Euripides has the most to say to modern readers. His principle themes -- the oppression of women, the folly of war, and the tensions between freedom and order, faith and reason, dogma and fact -- are as relevant today as they were millennia ago. The plays continue to shock, inspire, and remind us what it means to be human.
EuripidesGreek drama (Tragedy)great_books_of_the_western_worldPentheus (Greek mythology)Alcestis (Greek mythology)Dionysus (Greek deity)BacchantesRhesus (Legendary character)
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERSignet Classics, published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
LANGUAGEEN
Euripides 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, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his.[1] Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides
