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The Bakkhai
Language: en
Pages: 104
Authors: Euripides
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978 - Publisher:

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Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects t
Bakkhai
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Euripides
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Greek Tragedy in New Translations

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"Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai examines both the horror and the beauty of the religious ecstasy that Dionysos brings to Thebes. His offer
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Language: en
Pages: 657
Authors: Gregory Nagy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on t
Ritual Irony
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Helene P. Foley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae. Examining
Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman
Language: en
Pages: 580
Authors: Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

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(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipu