In Orestes, the famous Greek tragic dramatist Euripides (c. 480 BC to 406 BC) revisits the bloody history of the House of Atreus and ...
Continue Reading →Euripides’ Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer’s Odyssey of ...
Continue Reading →Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His ...
Continue Reading →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 →Frogs, Greek Batrachoi, a literary comedy by Aristophanes, produced in 405 bce. The play tells the story of Dionysus, the god of drama, who is ...
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