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

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, Drama

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, Greek Mythology, Drama

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, Greek Mythology, Drama

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, Drama

Euripide Euripides · 1884 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Phœnician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchæ, The Heraclidæ, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris. Shares: Greek drama, Greek Mythology, Drama

The complete plays of Sophocles Sophocles · 1967 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - AjaxTrachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From… Shares: Greek drama, Greek Mythology, Drama

Tragoediae Aeschylus · 1777 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Shares: Greek drama, Greek Mythology, Drama

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, Drama

Tragoediae Sophocles · 1669 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Greek Mythology, Drama

Euripides Erich Segal · 1968 · ★ 3.8 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M. W. Knox -- Watching the Trojan women / Eric A. Havelock -- Why the Trojan women? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Tragedy and… Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Greek Mythology

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos) Sophocles · 1715 · ★ 3.5 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Demanding 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… Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Drama

Sophoclis tragoediae Sophocles · 1828 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: Greek Mythology, Drama

Sophocle Sophocles · 1877 · 503p · ≈ 16h · 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: Greek Mythology, Drama

Eschyle Aeschylus · 1872 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: Greek Mythology, Drama

The lyrical dramas of Aeschylus Aeschylus · 1850 · ★ 4.1 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Aeschylus was one of the most famous ancient Greek tragedians He is often called "the father of tragedy”, since this genre really begins with his works. This edition includes the following dramas: Agamemnon Choephoræ Or, The Libation-Bearers The Eumenides Prometheus Bound The Suppliants The Seven Against Thebes The Persians Shares: Greek Mythology, Drama

The tragedies of Euripides Euripides · 1808 · 372p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Phœnician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchæ, The Heraclidæ, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris. Shares: Greek Mythology, Drama

Sophocles Sophocles · 1832 · ★ 4.2 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It juxtaposes Homeric and fifth-century institutions and values, explores honor, power and expediency as principles of personal and political life, and… Shares: Tragedy, Greek drama, Greek Mythology, Drama

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