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Orestes and Other Plays
Language: en
Pages: 483
Authors: Euripides
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-23 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends
Euripides: Orestes
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Matthew Wright
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exc
Studies in Euripides' Orestes
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: J.R. Porter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The Orestes is found to present a curious
Orestes
Language: en
Pages: 83
Authors: Euripides
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-25 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother
An Oresteia
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Aeschylus
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-02 - Publisher: Macmillan

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In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions -- Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles