The Collected Works of Euripides or Euripedes: PergamonMedia

by Euripedes

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Medea
• The Bacchae
• The Tragedies
• The Trojan Women
• Hippolytus; The Bacchae
• The Electra
• The Trojan women
• Alcestis
• The Iphigenia in Tauris
• and His AgeGilbert Murray
• The Rhesus
• HECUBA.
• ORESTES.
• THE PHŒNICIAN VIRGINS.
• MEDEA.
• HIPPOLYTUS.
• ALCESTIS.
• THE BACCHÆ.
• THE HERACLIDÆ.
• IPHIGENIA IN AULIS.
• IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS.
• ELECTRA, by
• ALCESTIS, by
• THE CYCLOPS, by
• THE BACCHANALS, by
• etc.

Genres: Classics, Plays, Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Mythology, Tragedy

1817 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 8, 2015

Reviews

[Les Wilson]

Taken me a long time to read but I cannot rush the classics and this is one of the best.

[Lydia Hughes]

(See review of ‘The Orestia’, and ‘The Complete Plays of Sophocles’). Read for my University Course on Greek Tragedy. An avid fan of the Iliad and the Odyssey, I found these ancient dramatic renditions of much-loved myths thoroughly enjoyable. Re-familiarising myself with the generational curse on the House of Atreus, the text picks up the tragic debris from the siege of Troy. where the siege of Troy. I was thrilled to encounter my childhood favourites from a fresh, un-Homeric perspective, their personalities and motives detailed with remarkable cogency on account of the dramatic form. I usually struggle to immerse myself in plays as I would a novel, yet the comfort of familiar names had me immediately invested. I excitedly await the coming term, enthusiastic to further my classical knowledge, and broaden my awareness of the characteristics of the tragic mode.

[Eric]

Re-reading these tragedies back-to-back after so many years (Oh Columbia's Humanities requirement!) was stimulating, instructive and rewarding. Most stiriking: through numerous, sharply drawn characters and various choruses, Euripedes constantly celebrates/advances Greek virtues of democracy, diplomacy, temperance, justice, peace and reason, even while the same characters, and action are usually driven by passions and in opposite directions, often thanks to the gods. (One great piece of dialogue: Achilles: "Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror." Clytemnestra: "My hopes are cold on that.")

Then too, and in the background mostly, Euripedes raises the question of: if the gods are to be as fickle ("callous, unjust and immoral") as humans, why do we sacrifce. submit to and worship them? Good question. And timeless too.

[David Goetz]

Translated into English prose by Edward Coleridge (1906) started 5/14/24. Finished 5/29/24. 407 pages.