Tag: Euripides

Free Download Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)
by Euripides
English | 2015 | ASIN: B018STI1UA | 2625 Pages | AZW3 | 5.47 MB

Free Download Evert van Emde Boas, "Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra "
English | ISBN: 019879360X | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB | 778 KB
This study of Euripides’ Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditional literary criticism in order to provide new and informative means of analyzing and interpreting what is considered to be one of the playwright’s most controversial works. It is the first systematic attempt to apply a variety of modern linguistic theories, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics (on gender and politeness), paroemiology, and discourse studies, to a single Greek tragedy.

Free Download The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides
by Marco Fantuzzi
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1107026024 | 720 Pages | True PDF | 5.1 MB

Free Download Euripides: Hippolytus By Michael R. Halleran
1995 | 275 Pages | ISBN: 0856682403 | PDF | 9 MB
Euripides works with a common story pattern – a young man (Hippolytus) becomes the object of a married woman’s (Phaedra’s) desire, rebuffs her sexual overtures, and is then falsely accused to the woman’s husband (Theseus, Hippolytus’ father) of rape. To this familiar tale Euripides adds the story of divine vengeance – Aphrodite has brought about this passion in Phaedra in order to punish Hippolytus for condemning her and neglecting her realm of sex and marriage. The play explores the themes of passion and moderation, speech and silence, honour and shame, and the relationship between gods and mortals. This play holds a particular place in Euripidean studies, not only because of its acknowledged excellence and influence, but also because it allows the unique opportunity to observe the playwright’s ‘rewriting’ of his earlier play on the same mythological topic, remarkably replacing the brazen Phaedra of earlier legend and previous treatments with a virtuous woman. Greek text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.

Free Download Euripides: Bacchae By Richard Seaford
1996 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0856686085 | PDF | 7 MB
This is a commentary on Bacchae. It takes account of the great amount written on the play since then as well as the discoveries that have been made about the cult of Dionsysus.

Free Download Isabelle Torrance, "Metapoetry in Euripides"
English | 2013 | pages: 389 | ISBN: 0199657831 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Metapoetry in Euripides is the first detailed study of the self-conscious literary devices applied within Euripidean drama and how these are interwoven with issues of thematic importance, whether social, theological, or political. In the volume, Torrance argues that Euripides employed a complex system of metapoetic strategies in order to draw the audience’s attention to the novelty of his compositions. The metapoetic strategies discussed include intertextual allusions to earlier poetic texts (especially to Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles) which are often developed around unusual and memorable language or imagery, deployment of recognizable trigger words referring to Description construction, novelties or secondary status, and self-conscious references to fiction implied through allusion to writing.

Free Download Thalia Papadopolou, "Euripides: Phoenician Women"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 071563464X | PDF | pages: 161 | 2.7 mb
"Phoenician Women", one of Euripides’ later tragedies, is an intriguing play that arguably displays some of his finest dramatic technique. Rich in cast and varied in incident, it is an example of Euripides’ experimentation with structure. It dramatises the most fertile mythical tradition of the city of Thebes and its doomed royal family, focusing in particular on the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices as a result of their father Oedipus’ curse, which eventually leads to mutual fratricide. The play was very popular throughout antiquity, and became part of the so-called "Byzantine Triad" (along with "Hecuba" and "Orestes"), of plays studied in the school curriculum.Thalia Papadopoulou here offers a thorough survey of the play in its historical context, against the background of Athenian tragedy and Euripidean dramaturgy. Employing various critical approaches, she investigates the literary tradition and the dynamics of intertextuality, Euripidean dramatic technique, the use of rhetoric, characterisation, gender, the function of the Chorus, aspects of performance and the reception of the play from antiquity to modern times.