Orestes and Other Plays

2006-02-23 Drama

Author : Euripides
Release : 2006-02-23
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book Orestes and Other Plays written by Euripides. This book was released on 2006-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of war. The Children of Heracles holds a mirror up to contemporary Athens, while Andromache considers the position of women in Greek wartime society. In The Suppliant Women, the difference between just and unjust battle is explored, while Phoenician Women describes the brutal rivalry of the sons of King Oedipus, and the compelling Orestes depicts guilt caused by vengeful murder. Finally, Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides' last play, contemplates religious sacrifice and the insanity of war. Together, the plays offer a moral and political statement that is at once unique to the ancient world, and prophetically relevant to our own.

Orestes

2013-03-25 Drama

Author : Euripides
Release : 2013-03-25
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 026/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Orestes written by Euripides. This book was released on 2013-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy.

The Oresteia of Aeschylus

2022-10-27

Author : Aeschylus
Release : 2022-10-27
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Download or read book The Oresteia of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2022-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

An Oresteia

2010-03-02 Drama

Author : Aeschylus
Release : 2010-03-02
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book An Oresteia written by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2010-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions -- Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes, giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. Carson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up the plays to a modern audience. --from publisher description.

Orestes and Other Plays

2009-03-26 Drama

Author : Euripides,
Release : 2009-03-26
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book Orestes and Other Plays written by Euripides,. This book was released on 2009-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume of Euripides plays in new translation. The four plays it contains, Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, explore ethical and political themes, contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism with justice, the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency.

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