5 Plays: Bacchae / Heracles / Children of Heracles / Phoenician Women / Suppliant Women
by Euripides
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Euripides (c.485-c.406 B.C.), most modern of the three greatest dramatists of tragedy in ancient Greece, composed nearly one hundred dramas, of which 18 or 19 survive and others are known in fragments.Tags
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Euripides was born in Attica, Greece probably in 480 B.C. He was the youngest of the three principal fifth-century tragic poets. In his youth he cultivated gymnastic pursuits and studied philosophy and rhetoric. Soon after he received recognition for a play that he had written, Euripides left Athens for the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia. show more Fragments of about fifty-five plays survive. Among his best-known plays are Alcestis, Medea and Philoctetes, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Trojan Women, and Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia. He died in Athens in 406 B.C. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Bacchanals, Madness of Hercules, Children of Hercules, Phoenician Maidens, Suppliants; Euripides III: Bacchanals, Madness of Hercules, Children of Hercules, Phoenician Maidens, Supplicants; 5 Plays: Bacchae / Heracles / Children of Heracles / Phoenician Women / Suppliant Women
- Original title
- Βάκχαι; Ἡρακλῆς μαινόμενος; Ἡρακλεῖδαι; Φοίνισσαι; Ἱκέτιδες
- Original publication date
- 1955; 1912 (Loeb edition) (Loeb edition)
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- Hecuba; Andromache; Ion; Menelaus
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- includes original greek text. Do not combine with translations only.
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 882.01 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek dramatic poetry and drama standard subdivisions; collections; history, description, critical appraisal; Specific periods Ancient period to ca. 499
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- PA3973 .A2 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Individual authors Euripedes
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