Трагедии. Том 1

by Euripides, Еврипид, Иннокентий Анненский (Translator)

В древности Еврипида называли «философом на сцене». Действительно, в конфликтах между мифическими героями, действующими в его трагедиях, решаются важнейшие общие вопросы человеческого бытия, человеческой нравственности. И вместе с тем в каждой трагедии воплощена высокая правда характеров, правда страстей, позволившая другому великому афинскому трагику, Софоклу, сказать о своем младшем современнике, что тот изображает людей «такими, какие они есть». Все эти свойства, в сочетании с могучим поэтическим талантом Еврипида, принесли его творениям бессмертие — не только в книгах, но и на многих сценах мира.

Genres: Classics, Drama

637 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of William Shakespeare's Othello, Jean Racine's Phèdre, of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg," in which "imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates". But he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.
His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism. Both were frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes. Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence. Ancient biographies hold that Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia, but recent scholarship casts doubt on these sources.

Reviews

[AttackGirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I wonder was she sacrificed for the wind or is that the truth. Really, what could a mother be told by the dad for a Virgin Daughter who was not bartered for politics or.... raped by the whole land of waring men. hmmm where are her parts.