The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by:
Euripides (author)
Alan Shapiro (author)
Peter Burian (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B004TFXRBQ
Publish date: December 7th 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 516
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Classic Literature,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Greece,
Mythology
Reading progress update: I've read 138 out of 206 pages. Medea: You will regret what you did to me, Jason! Jason: I regretted it alright How great can your anger be? To what extent are you ready to hurt those who hurt you? Would you kill your own children to appease a great offense? Medea is rea...
With beautiful clarity and realism, Euripedes crafted dramatic interpretations of Homeric tales with moral subtlety and timeless resonance. I will definitely keep coming back to this collection.
So far I've only read Medea, the 431 BC Euripides play about hell hathing no fury like a woman scorned. (Did you know that quote's not from Shakespeare? I guess I just dimly assumed it must be. It's from The Mourning Bride (1697) by someone named William Congreve. Same play opens with "Music has cha...
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