Eurípides

Ifigènia a Aulis és una tragèdia d'Eurípides datada l'any 409 aC. i representada el 406 aC, posteriorment a la mort del seu autor. Ifigènia és filla del rei Agamèmnon i la reina Clitemnestra, germana d'Electra, Crisòtemis i Orestes, que venjarà el seu pare després de la Guerra de Troia. La història es completa en …

"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.