18 books like Euripides

What to read after Euripides — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The plays of Euripides Euripides · 1602 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves her—here in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murray into English rhyming verse. With explanatory notes. Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Criticism and interpretation, Greek Mythology

Sophokles Sophocles · 1851 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone• Oedipus King of Thebes• The Seven Plays in English Verse• Antigone• Aias• King Oedipus• Electra• The Trachinian Maidens• Philoctetes• Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles,… Shares: Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation, Greek Mythology, Mythology

The tragedies of Sophocles Sophocles · 1729 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley. Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Greek Mythology

Plays Aeschylus · 1828 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "Four Plays" by Aeschylus is a collection that typically includes some of the most significant works by this ancient Greek playwright, who is often referred to as the father of tragedy. Aeschylus' plays are known for their profound exploration of justice, power, and the divine. While different collections might include various selections, four of his most famous plays are: "Agamemnon": The first… Shares: Greek drama, Greek Mythology, History and criticism

Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies G. Wilson Knight · 1930 · ★ 3.0 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Critique et interprétation, Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation

Tragedy Clifford Leech · 1969 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Tarentum (Modern Day Taranto) believed to depict scenes from Greek tragedy: at left Electra and Orestes, who murder their mother Clytemnestra in order to avenge their father, Agamemnon; Clytemnestra was motivated by Agamemnon taking the princess Cassandra as concubine, and by Agamemnon sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia.At right is Oedipus and Antigone; Oedipus was abandoned as an infant and… Shares: Tragedy, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Ausgewählte Komödien des Aristophanes Aristophanes · 1852 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Die 'Ausgewählten Werke von Aristophanes' bieten einen tiefen Einblick in das antike griechische Theater und die satirische Komödie. Aristophanes' Werke zeichnen sich durch ihre humorvolle und sarkastische Darstellung politischer und sozialer Themen aus, die auch heute noch relevant sind. Seine Stücke sind bekannt für ihre lebendigen Dialoge, komplexen Charaktere und oft absurden Handlungen. Der… Shares: Greek drama, Criticism and interpretation

Tracks in the snow Ruthven Campbell Todd · 1946 · 133p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares: Mythology in literature, History and criticism, Mythology

Aeschyli Tragoediae Aeschylus · 1809 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Introduction in English Shares: Greek drama, Greek Mythology

Ten plays Euripides · 1960 · ★ 4.1 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.  In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.  For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not… Shares: Greek drama, Greek Mythology

Greek Studies A Series Of Essays Walter Pater · 1894 · ★ 3.8 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This volume contains a reverie on the boyhood of Hippolytus, 'Hippolytus Veiled' (first published in Macmillan's Magazine in 1889), which has been called "the finest prose ever inspired by Euripides". Shares: Greek drama, Histoire et critique, Greek Mythology, History and criticism

Die Geburt der Tragödie Friedrich Nietzsche · 1872 · ★ 3.9 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the… Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, History and criticism, Mythology

Myths & legends of the Middle Ages H. A. Guerber · 1896 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A fascinating study of many traditional myths from the Middle Ages, including tales of Beowulf, Merlin and King Arthur, and the quest for the Holy Grail. Shares: Mythology in literature, History and criticism, Mythology

Supplices Euripides · 1743 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Centering on the right of proper burial for those fallen in battle, Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. In Electra Euripides gives us his version of the famous legend of the murder of Clytaemestra by her children in revenge for her killing their father, a portrayal interestingly different from that in Sophocles' Electra. Narrating sudden reversals in the hero's fortunes,… Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Greek Mythology, Mythology

Arthurian Legend Margaret J. C. Reid · 2014 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate First published in 1938, this study explores the reception of the mythology of King Arthur by modern poets and playwrights. More specifically, the author explores the lineage of the legendary material since the first edition of Malory in 1485, exploring a vast range of artists who have made use of it: Spenser, Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Hardy, Matthew Arnold, and even Wagner. The… Shares: Mythology in literature, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Heracles Euripides · 1876 · ★ 3.9 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging 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… Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Criticism and interpretation, Greek Mythology

The classic myths in English literature and in art Charles Mills Gayley · 1893 · 682p · ≈ 22h · Demanding An illustrated anthology of classical myths, based on Bulfinch's nineteenth-century "Age of Fable," examining myths of divinities and heroes, and including commentary. Shares: Mythology in literature, Mythology

A book of myths Jeanie Lang · 1915 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

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