Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, RhesusClarendon Press, 28 de gen. 1999 - 282 pàgines 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. |
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Pàgina xxii
... Clytemnestra , the heroine's mother , is desperately trying to prevent her husband Agamemnon from carrying out the intended sacrifice . Clytemnestra opens her appeal with the information that Iphigenia is not the first child of hers ...
... Clytemnestra , the heroine's mother , is desperately trying to prevent her husband Agamemnon from carrying out the intended sacrifice . Clytemnestra opens her appeal with the information that Iphigenia is not the first child of hers ...
Pàgina xxiii
... Clytemnestra , in the past and currently a blameless victim of her husband's callousness , goes on in the same speech to imply that if Agamemnon kills Iphigenia he may himself be killed on his return from Troy - that is , she threatens ...
... Clytemnestra , in the past and currently a blameless victim of her husband's callousness , goes on in the same speech to imply that if Agamemnon kills Iphigenia he may himself be killed on his return from Troy - that is , she threatens ...
Pàgina xxix
... Clytemnestra . The institution of slavery is itself much discussed : a character in a lost play affirmed that a noble slave is not dishonoured by the title , because ' many slaves are superior to the free ' ( fr . 511 ) .19 The old ...
... Clytemnestra . The institution of slavery is itself much discussed : a character in a lost play affirmed that a noble slave is not dishonoured by the title , because ' many slaves are superior to the free ' ( fr . 511 ) .19 The old ...
Pàgina xxx
... Clytemnestra's appeals to both Achilles and Agamemnon are masterpieces of emotive and cogent persuasion . Women are of course prominent in tragedy generally : patriar- chal cultures often use symbolic females to help them imagine ...
... Clytemnestra's appeals to both Achilles and Agamemnon are masterpieces of emotive and cogent persuasion . Women are of course prominent in tragedy generally : patriar- chal cultures often use symbolic females to help them imagine ...
Pàgina xxxi
Euripides. Clytemnestra's appeal to Agamemnon in Iphigenia at Aulis describes the vulnerability of women in such a society with pungent accuracy ( 1146-65 ) . There was certainly a feeling in antiquity that Euripides ' focus on women was ...
Euripides. Clytemnestra's appeal to Agamemnon in Iphigenia at Aulis describes the vulnerability of women in such a society with pungent accuracy ( 1146-65 ) . There was certainly a feeling in antiquity that Euripides ' focus on women was ...
Continguts
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Note on the Translation | xl |
Iphigenia among the Taurians I | 1 |
Bacchae | 44 |
Iphigenia at Aulis | 84 |
Rhesus | 133 |
Explanatory Notes | 163 |
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Iphigenia Among the Taurians: Bacchae ; Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus Euripides Previsualització no disponible - 2000 |
Iphigenia Among the Taurians: Bacchae ; Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus Euripides Previsualització no disponible - 1999 |
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Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon AGAVE allies altar Apollo Argives Argos arms army Artemis Athenian Athens Atreus Bacchae Bacchic barbarian blood bring Bromius brother Cadmus Calchas chariot child CHORUS chants CHORUS sings Cithaeron CLYTEMNESTRA dance daughter death Diomedes Dionysiac Dionysus divine Dolon Drama enemy Euripidean Euripides eyes father friends girl goddess gods Greece Greek Tragedy ground hair hand happy head HECTOR Helen hold holy honour horses Iliad Iphigenia at Aulis IPHIGENIA sings kill king land look maenads marriage Menelaus MESSENGER mortals mother mountain murder Muses Nereus night Odysseus oracle ORESTES palace Peleus Pelops Pentheus Phoebus Phrygians play PYLADES Rhesus rites ritual sacrifice sail Seaford ships sister slaughtered sleep song sorrow speak spear stichomythia strangers Taurians tears Teiresias tell temple Thebes things THOAS Thracian thyrsus Trojan Troy Tyndareus victim wife women words wretched Zeus
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Pàgina lii - Rome GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies...
Pàgina xxxiii - Consider their role in religion, for that, in my opinion, comes first. We women play the most important part, because women prophesy the will of Zeus in the oracles of Phoebus. And at the holy site of Dodona near the sacred oak, females convey the will of Zeus to inquirers from Greece. As for the sacred rituals for the Fates and the Nameless Ones, all these would not be holy if performed by men, but prosper in women's hands. In this way women have a rightful share in the service of the gods. Why...
Pàgina 167 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Pàgina 188 - ... baptized her again in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which ceremony concluded her cure. Some are taken in this manner to the market-place for many days before they can be cured, and it sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a bruly, or bottle of maize, upon their heads, without spilling the liquor, or letting the bottle fall, although they have put themselves into the most extravagant postures.
Pàgina 176 - Bird of the sea rocks, of the bursting spray, O halcyon bird, That wheelest crying, crying, on thy way ; Who knoweth grief can read the tale of thee : One love long lost, one song for ever heard And wings that sweep the sea. Sister, I too beside the sea complain, A bird that hath no wing. Oh, for a kind Greek market-place again, For Artemis that healeth woman's pain ; Here I stand hungering. Give me the little hill above the sea, The palm of Delos fringed delicately, The young sweet laurel and the...
Pàgina 184 - Hippolytus, he is the dark puritan whose passion is compounded of horror and unconscious desire, and it is this which leads him to his ruin (cf.
Pàgina xlv - O'Connor-Visser, Aspects of Human Sacrifice in the Tragedies of Euripides (Amsterdam, 1987...
Pàgina 222 - You know how Pandareus' daughter, the tawny nightingale, 510 perched in the dense foliage of the trees, makes her sweet music when the spring is young, and with many turns and trills pours out her full-throated song in sorrow for Itylus her beloved son, King Zethus' child, whom mistakenly she killed with her own hand.
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