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Alkestis
"Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies." "The introductory…
Gemeinsame Themen: Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama
Medea
"Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strongwilled and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible." "Euripides' devastating…
Gemeinsame Themen: Dionysus, Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Drama
Essais
The complete essays of Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592.
Gemeinsame Themen: Great_books, Great_books_of_the_western_world, History
Ödipus Tyrann
Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus…
Gemeinsame Themen: Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama