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Classical Greek literature --- Cyclopes (Greek mythology) --- Euripides. --- Cyclopes (Greek mythology) - Drama --- Euripides. - Cyclops

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This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now.

Drama --- Classical Greek literature --- Euripides --- Heracles [Mythological character]

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"Brill's Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering a wide diversity of thematic angles, provides readers with an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Euripides and Attic drama, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions and canons. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the rapidly evolving field of Euripidean studies. Contributors are: James Barrett, Luigi Battezzato, Joshua Billings, Claude Calame, D.M. Carter, John Davidson, Markus Dubischar, Francis Dunn, P.J. Finglass, Marco Fantuzzi, Helene P. Foley, Moira Fradinger, John Gibert, Justina Gregory, Emma Griffiths, Mary Louise Hart, Daniel I. Iakov, Ioanna Karamanou, Adrian Kelly, Poulheria Kyriakou, Anna A. Lamari, Michael Lloyd, Andreas Markantonatos, Sarah Miles, Sophie Mills, James Morwood, Melissa Mueller, Dana L. Munteanu, Patrick O'Sullivan, Joe P. Poe, Pietro Pucci, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Rush Rehm, Mark Ringer, Hanna M. Roisman, Elizabeth W. Scharffenberger, Ruth Scodel, Camille Semenzato, Carl Shaw, Niall W. Slater, Mae J. Smethurst, Mary Stieber, Laura Swift, William Blake Tyrrell, Angeliki Tzanetou, Eirene Visvardi, Paul Woodruff, Nancy Worman, and Florence Yoon"--

Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Euripides. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Euripides - Criticism and interpretation

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Mettre en cause sous l’Empire la supériorité du classicisme français et de la tragédie racinienne était à coup sûr audacieux. Qu’un Allemand le fît en français conférait à l’entreprise l’allure d’une insupportable prétention. August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845), lié à Germaine de Staël, avait lu l’abbé Batteux et ceux qui, en France même, soutenaient l’idée d’une précellence d’Euripide sur Racine. La Comparaison « entre les deux Phèdres » (1807) fut pour le romantique d’ Iéna qu’il était le sujet rêvé. La réédition de cette Comparaison entre la Phèdre de Racine et celle d’Euripide, la première depuis la princeps, restitue à la littérature française un texte capital. Elle est ici accompagnée, afin de la situer dans son contexte, d’extraits du Cours de littérature dramatique (1809-1810) d’August Wilhelm Schlegel, de quelques essais de ses prédécesseurs sur le même sujet, ainsi que de documents relatifs à l’accueil en France de la Comparaison (1807-1808). Cette édition donne ainsi à comprendre, avec l’assomption de la critique littéraire et l’affirmation d’une histoire du théâtre européen privilégiant Shakespeare et Calderón, l’émancipation, révolutionnaire, du Tragique.

Drama --- History and criticism --- Racine, Jean, --- Euripides. --- Drama - History and criticism --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699. - Phèdre --- Euripides. - Hippolytus --- Literature, Romance --- Theater --- littérature comparée --- littérature française --- critique littéraire --- tragédie --- théâtre, tragédie grecque --- tragédie grecque --- théâtre

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Euripides’ Cyclops is presented here in a new prose translation that is faithful to the original text, accompanied by a detailed introduction on the author, the work, and historical context. The volume also includes an extensive linguistic and substantive commentary, which does not presuppose knowledge of the Greek language. In der Blütezeit der griechischen Tragödie musste jeder der drei Dramatiker, die an den Großen Dionysien, dem bedeutendsten Dionysosfest Athens, im Rahmen des Tragödienwettbewerbs um den Sieg kämpften, nicht nur drei Tragödien präsentieren, sondern auch ein heiteres Nachspiel, das nach den Satyrn, die immer den Chor bildeten, Satyrspiel hieß. Der Kyklops des Euripides ist das einzige vollständig erhaltene Exemplar dieser dramatischen Gattung. Das Stück behandelt die jedem Zuschauer aus der Odyssee wohlbekannte Begegnung des Odysseus mit dem Kyklopen Polyphem.

Euripides, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical --- E-books --- Cyclopes (Greek mythology) --- Polyphemus - (Cyclops) --- Odysseus, - King of Ithaca (Mythological character) --- Silenus - (Mythological character)