Euripides

"Iphigeneia in Aulis" is een tragedie van de Griekse tragediedichter Euripides. Het werk werd vlak voor zijn dood in 406 v.Chr. te Pella geschreven, als onderdeel van de trilogie Iphigeneia in Aulis, Alkmaion in Korinthe, en Bakchai. Iphigeneia in Aulis werd postuum opgevoerd en werd mogelijk niet helemaal voltooid …

"Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels.... Equally instructive …

Electra is a written work by Euripides.

This volume contains Cyclops, the only complete satyr play that has survived from antiquity; Alcestis, the story of a woman who agrees, in order to save her husband's life, to die in his place; and Medea, a revenge tragedy in which Medea kills her own children to punish their father.