Tragedias: Alcestes - Medea - Electra - Hipólito

by Euripides

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190 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2009

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

[ana;; · Rating 3 out of 5]

este libro lo arranque en JULIO, y en cuatro días termina el año, no lo puedo creer

[Felipe · Rating 4 out of 5]

ame

[Miranda Contieri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gustó más de lo que esperaba, aunque me cueste leer teatro las historias eran entretenidas.

Alcestes: La única que no conocía (o no recordaba), me dio medio igual. Medio raro que aparezca Hércules en la mitad.

Medea: Peak literatura griega. Muy buenos los diálogos de Jason de que no debería existir el sexo femenino.

Elektra: Mejor que Elektra de Esquilo, aunque algunas cosas se contradecían (cómo que en uno Orestes asesina a Clitemnestra y en el otro es Elektra (?))

Hipólito: Todos estamos de acuerdo que Teseo es el peor héroe griego, no? (con Hércules)

Tiempo de Lectura: 4/5
Rating: 4:10 hs

[Marti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leí solo alcestes porque era la obligatoria, la verdad que me gustó. Lo unico memorable es el personaje de Alcestis, su marido Admeto la verdad que no sirve para nada salvo mostrar hospitalidad. Sorry not sorry

Ahora puedo ampliar mi reseña y decir que amé Ifigenia en Aulide...girl i suport You
Al final tiene razón Ifigenia, sin ella no podrían haber ganado la guerra de Troya. No tanto así pero si fue un elemento importante. Gracias por todo Ifigenia, yo te banco en todas