1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Euripides
Release : 1903
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Translation of the Iphigenia Among the Taurians of Euripides by : Euripides
Download or read book Translation of the Iphigenia Among the Taurians of Euripides written by Euripides. This book was released on 1903. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Euripides
Release : 1999-01-28
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 452/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus by : Euripides
Download or read book Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus written by Euripides. This book was released on 1999-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its `subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature.
Author : Euripides
Release : 2018-06-15
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Iphigenia Plays by : Euripides
Download or read book The Iphigenia Plays written by Euripides. This book was released on 2018-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Iphigenia’s enduring story are an ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a new generation of readers a graceful, clear, and powerful translation of Euripides’s two spellbinding (and very different) plays drawn from this legend: Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Even for readers unfamiliar with Greek mythology or drama, these plays are suspenseful, poignant, and haunting. Euripides’s ability to evoke emotion and raise difficult questions has long engaged viewers and readers alike. Taken together, the two plays illuminate timeless human conflicts, showcasing individuals and families ensnared by the fury of war, of politics, of religion, and of ambition. Euripidean characters are always second-guessing themselves; now new readers can also ponder their dilemmas. Poet and translator Rachel Hadas highlights the lyricism, emotion, and sheer humanity of Euripides’s plays. Mordant humor is here; so are heartbreak and tenderness. Hadas offers an Iphigenia story that resonates with our own troubled times and demonstrates anew the genius of one of the world’s supreme dramatists.
Author : Euripides
Release : 1915
Genre : American literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Iphigenia in Tauris by : Euripides
Download or read book Iphigenia in Tauris written by Euripides. This book was released on 1915. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proof, corrected, and inscribed "To Gladys, Fellow Olympian, from Hal, 1957." Witter Bynner's translation into English of Euripides's Iphigenia in Taurica.
Author : Euripides
Release : 2014-09-10
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 76X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Iphigenia Among the Taurians by : Euripides
Download or read book Iphigenia Among the Taurians written by Euripides. This book was released on 2014-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant and gripping classical drama of mistaken identities, divine intervention, a long-suffering family, and the rescue of a long-lost sister. I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus. My father killed me. Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work “personal, necessary, and important,” while Publishers Weekly says she is “nothing less than brilliant.” Her poetry—enigmatic yet approachable, deeply personal yet universal in scope, wildly mutable yet always recognizable as her distinct voice—invests contemporary concerns with the epic resonance and power of the Greek classics that she has studied, taught, and translated for decades. Iphigenia Among the Taurians is the latest in Carson’s series of translations of the plays of Euripides. Originally published as part of the third edition of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies, it is published here as a stand-alone volume for the first time. In Carson’s stunning translation, Euripides’s play—full of mistaken identities, dangerous misunderstandings, and unexpected interventions by gods and men—is as fierce and fresh as any contemporary drama. Carson has accomplished one of the rarest feats of translation: maintaining fidelity to a writer’s words even as she inflects them with her own unique poetic voice. Destined to become the standard translation of the play, Iphigenia Among the Taurians is a remarkable accomplishment, and an unforgettable work of poetic drama.
