3 Plays: Helen / Hippolytus / Medea
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1055 Three Great Plays (Medea, Hippolytus, Helen) of Euripedes translated by Rex Warner (read 6 June 1970) Back in March of 1952 I read three of Sophocles' plays. Now I have read these three plays. "Medea" tells of Medea's killing of her rival for Jason, and her children. "Hippolytus" tells of Phaedra, his father's wife, and her love for him, her suicide, and Theseus' curse of Hippolytus. "Helen" tells of her in Egypt.
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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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