Medea and Other Plays

Name: Medea and Other Plays
Brand: Penguin Classics
SKU: 0140441298
Price: 306 INR
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ISBN: 9780140441291

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05 Aug, 2004

By Euripides(Author), Philip Vellacott(Translated by)

Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright...

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ISBN-10:

0140441298

ISBN-13:

9780140441291

Publisher

Penguin Classics

No.of Pages

208

Dimensions

7.8 X 5.04 X 0.47 inches

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Medea/Hecabe/Electra/Heracles

Four devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred

The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love, and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy, driven mad by the prospect of her daughter's sacrifice to Achilles. Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother, while in Heracles the hero seeks vengeance against the evil king who has caused bloodshed in his family.

Translated with an Introduction by PHILIP VELLACOTT

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ISBN-10

: 0140441298

ISBN-13

: 9780140441291

Publisher

: Penguin Classics

Publication date

: 05 Aug, 2004

About the Author

Euripides was an Athenian born in 484BC. A member of a family of considerable rank, he disliked performing the public duties expected of him, preferring a life of introspection. He was not a popular figure, and at some point (and for a reason unknown) he went into voluntary exile at the court of Archelaus, King of Macedon. He died c.407BC and is thought to have written around ninety-two plays, of which seventeen survive.