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    Medea and Other Plays

    Author Euripides
    Introduction by Richard Rutherford
    Translated by John Davie
    Notes by Richard Rutherford
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Apr 29, 2003 | 240 Pages | 9780140449297
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    Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.


    Medea and Other PlaysGeneral Introduction
    Note on the Text
    Chronological Table
    Translator's Note

    Preface to Alcestis
    Alcestis

    Preface to Medea
    Medea

    Preface to The Children of Heraclea
    The Children of Heracles

    Preface to Hippolytus
    Hippolytus

    Notes
    Bibliography
    Glossary of Mythological and Geographical Names

    Little is known of the life of Euripides. He was born about 485 B.C. on the island of Salamis and may have begun a career as a painter before writing in the drama competitions in 455 B.C. During his lifetime his plays were often produced, but he won the Athenian drama prize only four times. He died in 406 B.C.

    Euripides was a prolific writer, the author of some eighty-eight or more plays, of which nineteen have survived under his name. He was criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, a practice that they considered degrading to the noble form of tragedy. However, audiences to whom his predecessors were cold and remote found Euripides direct and appealing.

    Euripides became immensely popular after he died and his influence altered drama forever. Considered by George Bernard Shaw to be the greatest of the Greek dramatists, Euripides is now regarded by many as the originator of the dramatic sensibility that developed into what we call "modern" European drama. View titles by Euripides

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    Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.


    Table of Contents

    Medea and Other PlaysGeneral Introduction
    Note on the Text
    Chronological Table
    Translator's Note

    Preface to Alcestis
    Alcestis

    Preface to Medea
    Medea

    Preface to The Children of Heraclea
    The Children of Heracles

    Preface to Hippolytus
    Hippolytus

    Notes
    Bibliography
    Glossary of Mythological and Geographical Names

    Author

    Little is known of the life of Euripides. He was born about 485 B.C. on the island of Salamis and may have begun a career as a painter before writing in the drama competitions in 455 B.C. During his lifetime his plays were often produced, but he won the Athenian drama prize only four times. He died in 406 B.C.

    Euripides was a prolific writer, the author of some eighty-eight or more plays, of which nineteen have survived under his name. He was criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, a practice that they considered degrading to the noble form of tragedy. However, audiences to whom his predecessors were cold and remote found Euripides direct and appealing.

    Euripides became immensely popular after he died and his influence altered drama forever. Considered by George Bernard Shaw to be the greatest of the Greek dramatists, Euripides is now regarded by many as the originator of the dramatic sensibility that developed into what we call "modern" European drama. View titles by Euripides

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