Heracles
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy). |
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Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy). |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Focus |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
English translation of Euripides' tragedy in which the hero Heracles, maddened by the gods, murders his wife and children but is returned to sanity by friendship and courage. Includes notes, an introduction on Euripides and the ancient theater, an interpretive essay on the play, and bibliography.
Author | : Florence Yoon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2020-01-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350076767 |
This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now.
Author | : Euripides, |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2008-09-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0199555095 |
The first three plays in this volume are typical of Euripides, filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is a satyr play, full of crude and slapstick humour. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humour while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141960930 |
Heracles/ Iphigenia Among the Taurians/ Helen/ Ion/ Cyclops: Of these plays, only 'Heracles' truly belongs in the tragic sphere with its presentation of underserved suffering and divine malignity. The other plays flirt with comedy and comic themes. Their plots are ironic and complex with deception and elusion eventually leading to reconciliation between mother and son in 'Ion', brother and sister in 'Iphigenia', and husband and wife in 'Helen'. The comic vein is even stronger in the satyric'Cyclops' in which the giant's inebriation and subsequent violence are treated as humorous. Together, these plays demonstrate Euripides' challenge to the generic boundaries of Athenian drama.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2021-10-13 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3986473564 |
Heracles Euripides - Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with effective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. But this suffering and divine malevolence are leavened by the friendship between Heracles and Theseus, which allows the hero to survive this final and most painful labor. The Heracles raises profound questions about the gods and mortal values in a capricious and harsh world.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Heracles (Greek mythology) |
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Author | : Thalia Papadopoulou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139446679 |
Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of Heracles examining it in the contexts of Euripidean dramaturgy, Greek drama and fifth-century Athenian society. It shows that the play, which raises profound questions on divinity and human values, deserves to have a prominent place in every discussion about Euripides and about Greek tragedy. Tracing some of Euripides' most spectacular writing in terms of emotional and intellectual effect, and discussing questions of narrative, rhetoric, stagecraft and audience reception, this work is required reading for all students and scholars of Euripides.