Euripide

Euripides I: Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus written by legendary tragedian Euripides is widely considered to be among greatest Greek Tragedies of all time. This combinations great classics will surely attract a whole new generation of Greek Tragedy readers. For many, Euripides work, specifically, …

Alcesti è una tragedia di Euripide, rappresentata probabilmente alle Dionisie del 438 a.C.. La sua tetralogia tragica comprendeva anche le tragedie Le Cretesi, Alcmeone a Psofide e Telefo. Di solito, le tetralogie si concludevano con un dramma satiresco: in questo caso il suo posto fu occupato da una tragedia a lieto …

"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 …