Eurípidés

Alkéstis je divadelní hra starořeckého dramatika Euripida. Jde o hořce ironickou tragikomedii, nejstarší Euripidovu dochovanou hru. Uvedena byla coby satyrské drama v roce 438 př. n. l. na Velkých Dionýsiích. Byla součástí tetralogie, z níž se ostatní hry nedochovaly. Euripidés, poražen nám neznámou tetralogií …

"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 …

The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and …