Euripides: 169 books

Medea ist eine 431 v. Chr. verfasste Tragödie des griechischen Dichters Euripides. Das Stück basiert auf der Argonautensage des griechischen Mythos. Die Königstochter Medea wird von ihrem Mann Jason, für den sie ihre eigene Familie zurückgelassen und verraten hatte, verstoßen und rächt sich grausam, wobei sie auch ihre eigenen Kinder tötet. (aus wikipedia.de)

Iphigenie in Aulis beschreibt die Vorgeschichte der Geschehnisse um die Iphigenie auf Tauris, wie wir sie etwa in der Bearbeitung Goethes kennen (der sich ausdrücklich auf das Vorbild des Euripides bezieht). Der Stoff stammt aus dem Mythenkreis um das Geschlecht der Atriden, die sich untereinander...

Euripides: Alkestis Erstaufführung 438 v. Chr. Hier nach der Übersetzung von Johann Adam Hartung. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Jean-François-Pierre Peyron, Alkestis Tod, 1785. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Hecuba By Euripides HECUBA: Ah me! an awful trial is nigh, it seems, fraught with mourning, rich in tears. Yes, I too escaped death where death had been my due, and Zeus destroyed me not but is still preserving my life, that I may witness in my misery fresh sorrows surpassing all before. Still...

Es la dramatización de la leyenda de Medea, casada con Jasón, y movida por los celos hasta el extremo de cometer crimenes antinaturles por parte de una madre.

This massive anthology of philosophy contains over 75 works by a dozen of the most known philosophers of all time. An active table of contents makes it easy to quickly to the work you want.Authors and books include:Aeschylus:AgamemnonBound and Seven Against ThebesThe House of AtreusMaidens and Other...

The play begins in front of the palace of Thebes, with Dionysus telling the story of his origin and his reasons for visiting the city. Dionysus explains that he was born prematurely, when Hera made Zeus send down a lightning bolt, killing the pregnant Semele and causing the birth. Some in Thebes, he...

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover...

The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city. It is believed to have been influenced by the capture of Melos, an Aegean Island, and the treatment of its population by the Athenians. These historical events took place the same year the play premiered, 415 BC.

A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary. The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also the most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handles the complex emotions of his characters with extraordinary depth and insight. Wronged...

Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children—a desperate and powerful act. Nicholas Rudall's deft translation for contemporary audiences provides new insight into this classic story.

The play begins with the god Poseidon lamenting the fall of Troy. He is joined by the goddess Athena, who is incensed by the Greek’s exoneration of Ajax the Lesser’s actions in dragging away the Trojan princess Cassandra from Athena's temple (and possibly raping her). Together, the two gods discuss ways to punish the Greeks, and conspire to destroy the home-going Greek ships in revenge.

The play begins with the introduction of Electra, the daughter of Clytemnestra and the late Agamemnon. Several years after Agamemnon’s death suitors began requesting Electra’s hand in marriage. Out of fear that Electra’s child might seek revenge, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus married her off to a...

Theseus, the king of Athens, is serving a year's voluntary exile after having murdered a local king and his sons. His illegitimate son Hippolytus, whose mother is the Amazon Hippolyta, has been trained here since childhood by the king of Troezen, Pittheus.