Transmitted among the plays of Euripides, but disputed to have been written by him ever since Antiquity, Rhesus is probably a mid-fourth century tragedy that ...
Continue Reading →Medea (Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in ...
Continue Reading →Iphigenia in Tauris or Iphigenia among the Taurians is a tragedy, although sometimes described as a romance or melodrama, by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, ...
Continue Reading →Ion is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, thought to have been written between about 414 and 412 BCE. It describes the tale ...
Continue Reading →“Heracles” or “The Madness of Heracles” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It describes the frenzy of divinely induced madness of the ...
Continue Reading →Helen is not the most famous of Euripides’ plays, but it is one of the most curious – and it deserves close analysis and study. ...
Continue Reading →Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around ...
Continue Reading →“Electra” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, probably dating from quite late in his career, around 410 BCE or later. It is ...
Continue Reading →n his long life, Sophocles (born ca. 496 B.C., died after 413) wrote more than one hundred plays. Of these, seven complete tragedies remain, among ...
Continue Reading →Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but ...
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