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The Bacchae and Other Plays Paperback – 27 February 2006

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The volume that completes our new 4-book collection of Euripides plays.

Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal, while in Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy. Finally, the Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring Greek and Trojan camps.
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    27 February 2006
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  6. ISBN-10
    0140447261
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EURIPIDES (C.484-406 B.C.) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles; he is the youngest of the three. He is believed to have written 92 dramas, but only 19 of them are now known.


John Davie is Head of Classics at St Paul's School in London.
Richard Rutherford is Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature at Christ Church, Oxford.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (27 February 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140447261
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140447262
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.95 x 2.54 x 19.81 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpᵻdiːz/ or /jɔːˈrɪpᵻdiːz/; Greek: Εὐριπίδης; Ancient Greek: [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]) (c. 480 – 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and 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. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets",[nb 1] 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 Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

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Titas Choudhury
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing collection, usual Amazon damages
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I cannot stand one damage to my books. So when my new book arrives with scratches and tears not enough to warrant a return but just enough to make me cry, it destroys me. The content is undoubtedly awesome! Major help for my academic work plus entertainment. Has so many great plays at one place
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Alex Braelow
2.0 out of 5 stars Not the right plays.
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This version was supposed to include: Phoenician Women, Orestes, The Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Rhesus. However, it actually contained: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, and The Bacchae.

Not a big deal if you want The Bacchae and don't care about the rest, but I needed the rest as well.
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Alex Braelow
2.0 out of 5 stars Not the right plays.
Reviewed in Spain on 12 February 2022
This version was supposed to include: Phoenician Women, Orestes, The Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Rhesus. However, it actually contained: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, and The Bacchae.

Not a big deal if you want The Bacchae and don't care about the rest, but I needed the rest as well.
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CHRISTOPHER TRUMAN
5.0 out of 5 stars Compusive reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2020
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Overall, so very modern
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Claudia Saatchi
5.0 out of 5 stars Greek Drama
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Euripides is one of the great playwrights of classical Greece and with this collection (in translation) you have his complete works - as far as they exist.

I bought it because I am writing a series of poems based on Dionysus to accompany an exhibition by Mike Healey in Corfu early next year but you should buy this if you want to touch base with the ancient origins of great drama.
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