Euripide

Ifigenia in Aulide è una tragedia di Euripide, scritta tra il 407 ed il 406 a.C., nel periodo che l’autore passò alla corte di Archelao, re di Macedonia, dove morì. L’opera reca alcuni segni di incompiutezza e non fu mai messa in scena dall’autore. La prima rappresentazione avvenne nel 403 a.C., ad opera del figlio …

"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.