Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Tragedies of Euripides.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Euripides, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Tragedies of Euripides:I am present, having left the secret dwellings of the dead and the gates of darkness, where P...

In the ancient land of Tauris, where the goddess Artemis demands human sacrifice, Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, finds herself a captive priestess. Haunted by her past and longing for her homeland, she yearns for escape. When two strangers, Orestes and Pylades, arrive on the island, Iphigenia's fate takes an unexpected turn. As they unravel the threads of their shared history, a web of deception, betrayal, and divine intervention entangles them all. In this timeless masterpiece by Eurip...

In the throes of the Trojan War, the Greek fleet is becalmed at Aulis. The seer Calchas reveals that Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks, must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis. Agamemnon, torn between his duty to his country and his love for his child, must make a heart-wrenching decision. As the fateful day approaches, Iphigenia, unaware of her impending doom, arrives at Aulis with her mother Clytemnestra. The stage is set for a tragic confrontation that wil...

A powerful look at the lives of a people destroyed by military conflict, from the writer Aristotle called "the most tragic of poets."Produced in 415 BC, The Trojan Women is a remarkable look at human suffering in the aftermath of war. Unlike The Iliad and The Odyssey, which focus on the Greek victors of the Trojan War, Euripides shines his moral imagination on the Trojan survivors: the women held captive by the Greek army. Showcasing the ...

This great work of classical Greek theater is a profound reflection on faith, fanaticism, and human nature.Considered by many to be Euripides's most important work, The Bacchae has been rousing audiences since the fifth century BC. Appearing in human form, the Greek god Dionysus has come to seek vengeance on his mortal cousin, Pentheus, King of Thebes. The Greek ruler has proclaimed that, far from being the son of Zeus, Dionysus is a mere mortal. Angered a...

I choose to take back my life.My life.Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day's grace. It's time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.Ben Power's version of Euripides' tragedy Medea premiered...

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...

Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised...

Euripides, the youngest of the trio of great Greek tragedians was born at Salamis in 480 B.C., on the day when the Greeks won their momentous naval victory there over the fleet of the Persians. The precise social status of his parents is not clear but he received a good education, was early distinguished as an athlete, and showed talent in painting and oratory. He was a fellow student of Pericles, and his dramas show the influence of the philosophical ideas of Anaxagoras and of Socrates, w...

Euripides (480 BC-406 BC) is revered as one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, and produced the largest body of extant work by any ancient playwright. These three provided the canon of Greek tragedy and thereby lay the foundation of Western theatre. Euripides' works are characterized by their moral ambiguity, plots of intrigue, and a separate character (usually a deity) who introduces the play with an explanatory prologue. "Heracles" was ...

World premiere of a new version of Euripides’ classic Medea. Plays in London as part of the Almeida’s Greek Season.Medea’s marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides’ seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman and a wife. One of world drama's most infamous characters is brought to controversial new life by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (The Merchant of Venice, King Cha...

Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the dramatic competitions of the Athenian City Dionysia in 441 b.c.e. 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 b.c.e., Euripides left worn-torn Athens for Macedonia, upon the invitation of King Archelaus, and there he spent his last years as a confidant of ...