| 单词 | Euripides |
| 例句 | Ptolemy III Euergetes wished to borrow from Athens the original manuscripts or official state copies of the great ancient tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a prominent character in three of Euripides’ plays and in one of Sophocles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I have taken this story from the Antigone and the Oedipus at Colonus, two of Sophocles’ plays, with the exception of the death of Menoeceus, which is told in a play of Euripides, The Suppliants. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Any deity who demanded them was thereby proved to be evil, and, as the poet Euripides said, “If gods do evil then they are not gods.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The happy end brought about by a divinity, the deus ex machina, is a common device with Euripides alone of the three tragic poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He passes over also one of the most famous tales about Hercules, how he freed Alcestis from death, which was the subject of another of Euripides’ plays. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar numbers apply to the works of Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Euripides, this Greek writer from the fifth century BC. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Euripides, the youngest, died at the end of the fifth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In his play The Frogs, the conservative Aristophanes makes repeated sneering references to Euripides’ partiality for books. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The end, the tale of what happened to the Trojan women when Troy fell, comes from a play by Sophocles’ fellow playwright, Euripides. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have chosen Euripides’ version which, as so often with him, reflects remarkably our own point of view. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Euripides’ play, The Suppliants, shows his modern mind better than any of his other plays. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z After extensive negotiations, the king convinced the government of Athens to lend him what amounted to state treasures: the definitive editions of the plays of the three great dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I have added the account of what Jason and Medea did there, taking it from the fifth-century tragic poet Euripides, who made it the subject of one of his best plays. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference between Euripides’ Medea and Apollonius’ heroine and also Virgil’s Dido is in its degree a measure of what Greek tragedy was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The other two, Sophocles and Euripides, were a little younger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophocles, Euripides’ contemporary, describes how the hero died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have taken this story entirely from two plays of Euripides, the fifth-century tragic poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the subject of one of Aeschylus’ plays and one of Euripides’. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer and director David Lan first worked with the actor during the mid-1990s on the workshop of an adaptation of the Euripides’ play “Ion.” Theater: The Passion of Michael Sheen 2011-04-20T12:30:05Z Only rarely does this emphasis dull the impact of Euripides’ 415 B.C. play, and when the floodgates do finally open up in Jocelyn Clarke’s insightful adaptation, the result is that much more devastating. Theater Review: ‘Trojan Women (After Euripides)’ at BAM Next Wave Festival 2012-11-29T22:29:32Z Despite her trepidation, her performance was a success, and Birkin continued to appear onstage, alternating, as was her wont, between boulevard fare and Euripides. Jane Birkin: An Adventurous Artist Made in England, Forged in France 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z One of my favorite teaching experiences was when I participated in Bard’s Prison Initiative last autumn, teaching Sophocles and Euripides to the inmates at a maximum-security facility about an hour from campus. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z One of them is George Peele, a university man, who translated Euripides and could turn his hand to almost any kind of writing. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z A loose adaptation of Euripides’s “Helen,” which argues that Helen never even went to Troy, it stars Renée Fleming and Ben Whishaw. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Of course, Euripides being Euripides, a playwright tagged as so woman-hating that his colleague Aristophanes could write a comedy about it, this experiment ends very, very badly. Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Euripides is more our contemporary than either Aeschylus or Sophocles, but we still have little clue how to meet the demands of his ancient postmodernism. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z First Marcus steeps himself in Euripides at the library; then he seeks revenge. Tom Hewitt in ‘Another Medea’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z But plenty of canonical works — Euripides’s plays or Seneca’s or Shakespeare’s — were remixes, too. Simon Stone Faced the Unthinkable. He Thinks You Should Too. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Two months later, the playwright Charles Mee tries his hand at adapting three of Euripides’ plays: “Iphigenia at Aulis,” “The Trojan Women,” and “Orestes.” ArtsBeat: Classic Stage Season to Begin With Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2014-03-06T21:46:18Z Sartre's play reworks the Electra myth from Aeschylus and Euripides, but we knew, or thought we knew, that it was based on the activities of the French resistance in Paris during the war. Once upon a life: Margaret Drabble 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Audiences will get to see the result when the Brooklyn Academy of Music presents the company in “Supernatural Wife,” based on Euripides’ play “Alcestis,” at the Harvey Theater, Tuesday through Saturday. Dance: ?Supernatural Wife,? a New York Dance Premiere 2011-11-27T05:10:08Z It is also a fair summing up of Euripides’ “Medea,” one of the bloodiest and most disturbing of Greek tragedies. Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z More often than not, she’d be there, portraying women of wit and passion, whose commanding serenity rippled with hints of upheavals to come, masterly performances in masterworks by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pinter, Ibsen, Rattigan and Euripides. How Helen McCrory Shone, Even in a Haze of Mystery 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z At one point the lovesick Jones recites a fine couplet from Euripides. Caleb Carr’s ‘Surrender, New York’ echoes ‘The Alienist’ in theme if not setting 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z In “Iphigenia in Aulis,” the last great work by the Athenian playwright Euripides, she volunteers to be sacrificed in order to help her countrymen wage war, but she’s mysteriously saved by the goddess Artemis. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z You say: It’s a time-honored tradition dating to antiquity, when Athenians gathered in hillside amphitheaters to ponder the tragedies of Euripides. Perspective | Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the theatrical sun 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z In Euripides’s “Medea”, the last of the season of three plays, which opened on October 1st directed by Mr Goold, Medea murders her two children as revenge on her unfaithful husband. A new take on Greek tragedy 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z He has been praised and dissed for riffing wild on venerable works, like Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” and Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” with what usually registers more as hellbent madness than discernible method. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z “It’s a science-fiction screwball tragedy,” she said, “like Euripides meets Howard Hawks.” Athina Rachel Tsangari Directs ?Attenberg? 2012-03-02T19:13:03Z Of “That Summer — That Fall,” based on Euripides’s tragedy Hippolytus, Mr. Gilroy later quipped, “What I learned was that a boy from the Bronx shouldn’t mess around with the Greeks.” Frank D. Gilroy, playwright of Pulitzer-winning ‘The Subject Was Roses,’ dies at 89 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z She gave lectures on Euripides’ “Hecuba” and Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon” — two tragedies that form the core of the show — and attended rehearsals every day so that the cast could mine her knowledge. An Immersive Show Taps ‘an Oracle’ for a Spin on Greek Myth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Medea A scorned wife plots bloody revenge in Euripides’ classic Greek tragedy. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 14-21: 'My Girlfriend Is an Alien! by Neil DeFacto' and more 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z For a brilliant plot template, I looked at Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, which is the same story – a young girl commits to an heroic act, against the wishes of her parents. Paperback Q&A: Jane Rogers on The Testament of Jessie Lamb 2012-08-21T14:38:26Z Although the end of “Medea” may not be as dreadful as Euripides intended, these radical departures have been a critical success. A new take on Greek tragedy 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In the 2,446-year-old play by Euripides, the deepest, most blindly self-sacrificing kind of spousal devotion turns into a horrifying torrent of vengeful rage. Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on Greek tragedy, Mexican American immigration 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The show is not going on, but a high-stakes Livestream conversation about Euripides is set for Friday night at Georgetown University. Keegan Theatre finds Irish audiences enthusiastic about ‘A Few Good Men’ The play, staged this month and next in Berlin’s historic Volksbuehne, is an adaptation of Euripides’ 2,500-year-old story of a princess sacrificed by her father, the Greek King Agamemnon, to placate an angry goddess. Ancient Greek tragedy tells timeless story of Syrian flight 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The play was Euripides’ “Medea,” which is not exactly children’s theater, unless you like your children violently murdered. With ‘Significant Other,’ Joshua Harmon Happily Writes About the Unhappy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z First off the blocks is Rosanna Lowe's take on Euripides's Greek tragedy set in a modern city built on money and greed, and played out in the disused printing press rooms of the local paper. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z Among the Wodehouses and the Euripides there were, of course, fierce economic tomes, capitalist manuals, bibles of domination. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z “It’s ‘Queer Eye for the Absent Guy,’ ” my friend Tom said, flicking the switch that backlit the Euripides bust by the bongos, in front of the skateboard-mounted vinyl couch. T Magazine: Su Casa Es Mi Casa 2013-05-05T21:00:17Z “The Bacchae” is very loosely based on Euripides’s ancient play, whose characters seem to have been transplanted into a postapocalyptic world. At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z “Euripides seemed like he was sending a message to anyone else who ever wrote about Iphigenia — he was sending a message about freedom,” he says. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The National Theater’s “Phaedra,” through April 8, is a new play from the Australian writer-director Simon Stone that draws from Euripides, Seneca and Racine. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Euripides, the most irreverent of the Greek tragedians, cuts these Homeric figures down to size. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Swados, who died in January at 64, composed scores for Brecht and Euripides plays. Meryl Streep, Diane Lane and Others on the Legacy of Elizabeth Swados 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Mac likes to cite a theatrical legacy, running back through Shakespeare and Euripides, that mixes high and low, resisting classification. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z “The Bacchae,” part of the Next Wave Festival in a new translation from Aaron Poochigian, is a late tragedy by Euripides. Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The play, staged this month and next in Berlin’s historic Volksbuehne, is an adaptation of Euripides’ 2,500-year-old story of a princess sacrificed by her father, the Greek King Agamemnon, to placate an angry goddess. Ancient Greek tragedy tells timeless story of Syrian flight 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Warner remains best known internationally for her Broadway staging of Euripides' Medea, which earned both her and Shaw Tony nominations in 2003. Potter actress Shaw steps in at Met 2013-08-07T14:28:07Z Euripides, who sometimes hewed to that narrative line, is comfortable reinventing myths to suit his own dramatic purposes. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Medea, written and directed by Simon Stone, after Euripides. Review | Beware. This stylish ‘Medea’ adaptation offers no escape, for Rose Byrne or for you. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Aristotle faulted the play for the inconsistency of Iphigenia’s behavior, but Euripides intentionally emphasizes the changeable nature of all the characters, who see themselves at the mercy of shifting circumstances. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Lisa Bielawa based “The Trojan Women,” an expressive quartet, on a score she wrote for a production of Euripides’ tragedy of the same name. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z The Theater of War project, founded in 2008, presents readings of Greek tragedies by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides to military veterans. Sunday Reading: Veterans’ Stories 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Bird's story transports Euripides' tragedy to the contemporary setting of a prison hospital. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z But more important, wine is being extolled as absolutely essential to our daily diet on the Almeida stage, where a riveting production of Euripides’ “Bakkhai” is hypnotizing packed houses. Ben Brantley on London Theater, Where Characters Drink to Dull the Pain of Life 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The Greek defense is, arguably, the most formidable in the tournament, lining up with Euripides, Hippocrates, Herodotus and Euclid. A World Cup for writers in the 'Penguin Cup' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z As in Euripides, God-maddened women establish a radical separatist commune in the woods. Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Euripides’ fearlessness ought to inspire more radical artistic and political fervor. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Even in the more traditional productions, Medea's godly lineage is problematic, because Euripides uses it to avoid the question of guilt. Medea: the mother of all roles 2012-10-02T18:04:21Z He wrote to Bareburger’s chief executive, Euripides Pelekanos, who eventually met with him and told him that 75 to 80 percent of the beef in the burgers was organic. When the Menu Says ‘Organic,’ but Not All the Food Is 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z And that made him the most unattainable and romantic hero imaginable — Hippolytus, Euripides’ chaste and scornful warrior, or a Mr. Rochester for the sci-fi age. For Leonard Nimoy, Spock’s Hold Made Reaching Escape Velocity Futile 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Of course, if you run to your collected works of Euripides, you won't find any mention of that descent - or of golden kilts. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Making An Entrance 2012-07-05T16:52:58Z But the juice of the grape was being extolled as absolutely essential to our daily diet at the Almeida Theater in Islington, where a riveting production of Euripides’s “Bakkhai” was hypnotizing a packed house. London Journal: A Nonstop Carnival of Culpability 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z "A Greek playwright entered a tailor shop. The tailor asked him, 'Euripides?' The tragedian responded, 'Yes, Eumenides?'" 7 puns that make sense in more than one language 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z She spends the last half of Euripides’s play talking herself into stabbing her children before her ex-husband’s new in-laws — a couple of whom she’s just set on fire — can murder them in revenge. Analysis | Why are there so many stories about parents killing kids? A new movie treats it as comedy. 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Though there is no outlet for her comic gifts in Euripides’ grim depiction of female prisoners of war, irony glows dark as Cleary’s once-royal Hecuba bemoans her steep fall and humiliating conditions. Review | Pedal to the metal in ‘Trojan Women’ and ‘Shrew’ 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z In "Iphigénie," Gluck excels in sublime balance by pairing down Euripides' play to its fundamentals and setting restrained musical parameters against which emotional imbalance can be best recognized. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z It feels fitting that someone should have had a supernatural experience: in Greek myth and Euripides' play, Medea is the granddaughter of the sun-god Helios and niece of Circe, a witch. Medea: the mother of all roles 2012-10-02T18:04:21Z Reimagining source material from Virgil, Homer, Euripides and others, Haynes delivers a sparkling narrative about the Trojan War that will appeal to fans of “Game of Thrones” as well as die-hard mythology nerds. Review | Natalie Haynes’s ‘A Thousand Ships’ brilliantly reframes the Trojan War 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Stone is back, with a reworking of another classic: Euripides’s “Medea.” Things to Do in N.Y.C. This January 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s the subterranean drive of these ritualistic dance sequences that propels the production’s boldest leap: when Ms. Acogny suddenly becomes Medea, reciting Euripides and tearing apart pillows to symbolize killing her children. Review: An African Dance Matriarch Brings Out the Knives 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In his latest exhibition at LA Louver, the painter is showing 18 new, large-scale works inspired by Armenian manuscripts, biblical stories and a variety of literary characters, including Homer and Euripides. Datebook: Surreal scenarios, art that mines data, light works by James Turrell 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Doesn’t anyone want to go and bother Euripides for a while? Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z This winter the Brooklyn Academy of Music will produce his harrowing reworking of Euripides’s “Medea,” starring the actors Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale. Simon Stone Faced the Unthinkable. He Thinks You Should Too. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Almost twenty-five hundred years ago, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides wrote tragedies about the human spirit shattered, corrupted, and abused by war. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z While Headlong's current touring production of Mike Bartlett's sees Euripides' spurned heroine as a single mum living on a new-build housing estate. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z As recounted in plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, Electra’s mother, Clytemnestra, murders her husband as revenge for him killing another of their daughters many years earlier. A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But much as I relished the linguistic vigour and pugnacious wit of Caroline Bird's new version, described as "after Euripides", I wished it had gone even further. The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-13T18:00:02Z That was true for the last character Ms. McCrory embodied at the National, Euripides’ Medea. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z It's a play bursting with references to other plays, including even one of the greatest tragedies ever written, Euripides' "The Bacchae." Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Socrates not only enjoyed dancing — arguing that it was good exercise — but was also reputed to have edited and “patched up” some of the plays of his friend Euripides. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The girls today in society Go for classical poetry, So to win their hearts one must quote with ease Aeschylus and Euripides. The Shakespeare film canon 2010-12-11T01:30:00Z In that regard, the actors bring to mind Euripides’ “The Bacchae” as much as they do Aristophanes. Review: Building the Wall (Not That One) in Aristophanes’ ‘The Birds’ 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z There are few tragedies more haunting than the death of innocents, as Shakespeare, Euripides and the daily news remind us. Royal Swedish Ballet offers an innovative ‘Juliet and Romeo’: One for today 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z As writer, Bartlett doesn't just transfer Euripides to the modern world – he exposes him to the full weight of post-Freudian psychology. Medea – review 2012-10-03T10:44:54Z And far from feeling constrained by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Tóibín ventures into the lacunae of the old legends and pumps blood even into the silent figures of Greek tragedy. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z This is not a wholesale reworking or updating of “Iphigenia in Aulis,” an angry tale of familial sacrifice that is thought to be Euripides’ last play, and one he never completed himself. Review: A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z A new adaptation of Euripides' Medea, by Ben Power, starring Helen McCrory in the title role, opens in July. New Tom Stoppard play for National 2014-03-20T14:53:35Z She reacts whereas in Euripides the character both reflects and reacts, emotion superseding reason but not entirely displacing it. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Anne Carson’s cryptic meditation on Euripides’ “Helen,” directed by Katie Mitchell, reaches the end of its run at the new arts center in Hudson Yards. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The play, a reworking of Euripides and Goethe by the Polish writer Joanna Bednarczyk, strives to reinterpret the character of Iphigenia, whose father, the Greek king Agamemnon, sacrifices her to appease a vengeful goddess. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z This week Bird's radical retelling of Euripides' The Trojan Women opened in the intimate space of Notting Hill's Gate theatre. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z Cross-casting enables us to hear echoes of Euripides in Lorca's Blood Wedding staged in Northampton's Victorian theatre. The Bacchae/Blood Wedding – review 2012-06-04T11:25:27Z Photograph: Manuel Harlan At the opening of Euripides’ play, Medea finds herself abandoned by her husband Jason, in spite of all her efforts helping him to gain the Golden Fleece. How well do you know Medea? – quiz 2012-10-05T09:10:36Z A spectacularly made-over Greek chorus is the chief asset of this generally less confident version of Euripides’ “Iphigenia in Aulis,” which opened on Thursday night as part of the Classic Stage Company’s Greek Festival. Review: A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Then, with much shattering of the fourth wall, she transforms into Euripides’ antiheroine. Standout plays at this year’s Contemporary American Theater Festival: The list 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z I ask which Greek stories she'd assign a reluctant student, and she talks through options, including Euripides' The Bacchae, "nice and bloodthirsty, but also gripping". The Saturday interview: Madeline Miller, Orange prize winner 2012-06-01T23:06:33Z They were set out 2,000 years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. When will Nicholas Sparks stop making girls cry? 2010-04-22T21:05:00Z It’s an experiment that takes only what it needs from the Euripides drama of Trojan women raging about their postwar fate. Review | From the Trojan War to Trump: Troupe makes a feminist statement at festival 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Now this is me talking and not Euripides, but see what happens when you don’t believe women? Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z By then blind from macular degeneration, Ms. Stevenson played Teiresias, the sightless seer, in the Euripides play. Margot Stevenson, Prolific Broadway Actress, Dies at 98 2011-01-07T06:15:01Z He was a student at Morehouse College during the contested 2000 presidential election and 9/11 – “Boom, boom, boom, as I was discovering Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides,” he says of the arresting news. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z That meteor turns out to be Dionysus, the god who appears in Euripides’s play to punish Pentheus and his relatives for claiming that Dionysus is not the son of Zeus. At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z It's only eight years since Lisa Dillon took to the stage in her first major role, as Iphigenia in Edna O'Brien's succulent version of Euripides. Singing in the rain 2011-03-27T00:04:08Z It was a sold-out run, co-starring her husband, Bobby Cannavale, in an updated version of the Euripides classic. Rose Byrne: ‘You understand why feminists are furious – we’re still talking about this?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z That phrase, which gives a dramatist the license to toy with facts in search of a larger meaning, must go back to Euripides. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z In “Supernatural Wife,” performed at the Harvey Theater on Tuesday evening, they delve into Euripides’ play “Alcestis.” Dance Review: Big Dance Theater in ?Supernatural Wife? - Review 2011-11-30T22:55:53Z The piece also grew out of the couple’s collaboration with the translator Anne Carson on Euripides’ play “Orestes,” which was produced by the Classic Stage Company in 2009. Dance: ?Supernatural Wife,? a New York Dance Premiere 2011-11-27T05:10:08Z Iphigenia in Aulis Outdoor staging of Euripides’ classic tragedy about Agamemnon’s decision to sacrifice his daughter on the eve of the Trojan War. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 3-10: 'Once' at South Coast Rep and more 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Certainly Sophocles and Euripides never found room for a banjo. Desire Under the Elms 2010-09-29T21:15:00Z Social critics have long turned to Euripides’s plays, especially “Iphigenia in Aulis,” “Iphigenia in Tauris” and “Medea,” which also features a woman tangled up in the whims of the gods. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It has produced Euripides’ “The Bacchae” in rural communities affected by the opioid crisis, “The Madness of Heracles” in neighborhoods afflicted by gun violence and gang wars, and Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound” in prisons. Front-line nurses star in online staging of play ‘Antigone’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z This is O'Neill aiming for the effect of Greek tragedy with nods in the direction of Euripides and Sophocles – not to mention Sigmund Freud. Desire Under the Elms – review 2012-10-09T12:08:38Z For all the melodrama inherent in his tragedy, Euripides maintains a critical distance that allows him to interrogate the deeper meanings of his play. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z He transferred Euripides' tale of vengeful slaughter in the family of the legendary King Agamemnon to the household of a contemporary Latino drug boss in the Southern California desert. Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on Greek tragedy, Mexican American immigration 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z As I was searching for the sound and tone of “On Freedom,” I returned often to Anne Carson’s prefaces to her translation of plays by Euripides, “Grief Lessons.” Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The other is Euripides' ancient Greek play Orestes from 408 BC. Will The Simpsons survive the apocalypse? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Dressed in a gauzy black chiton, Hodsoll portrays both an exasperated version of Medea — the Euripides protagonist who killed her kids to spite her unfaithful husband—and an exasperated version of an actress playing Medea. A tragic Greek character gets a comedic revival in ‘Medea’s Got Some Issues’ He studied Greek and quoted freely from Homer and Euripides. What did Marcus Aurelius believe? 'Meditations' has the answers. 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Among the tragedians, there are extant works from only three: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Hedges said the director had compared the show to the last production to run at Soho Place, Euripides’ Greek tragedy “Medea.” ‘Brokeback Mountain’ brings two rising acting stars to the London stage 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The freshness of approach is emblematic of what is happening to classic pieces these days on London stages, where dazzling revivals rethink locales as diverse as Euripides’s Greece and Tennessee Williams’s New Orleans. Review | ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘Medea’ and more: Classics in London feel new again 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Thus, Euripides in 415 B.C. in “The Trojan Women”: “And forth, lo, the women go,/The crown of War, the crown of Woe,/To bear the children of the foe …” Review | Women artists tell an ugly truth: The war within may never be over 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “Other countries have instantly recognisable monuments, now we have ours,” Euripides Evriviades, who is a former Cyprus ambassador to the UK, wrote on Twitter. Cyprus's homage to the humble spud goes viral 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The most famous work by Aristophanes is “The Frogs,” whose plot centers on a competition between the dead poets Euripides and Aeschylus over whose tragic plays are more inspiring for Athenians. Perspective | Whether it’s a Greek play or an American sitcom, nothing lasts forever 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z When Euripides’ unhinged heroine Medea seeks vengeance on her husband, Jason, she turns to fashion. Opinion | Fashion Will Not Disappear. It Will Transform. 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z That production, which visited New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2018, prefigures “Phaedra,” a version based on those by Euripides, Seneca and Racine. Review | ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘Medea’ and more: Classics in London feel new again 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Golden Ages in the theater are not just a coincidence of lucky births, such as Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides or Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. My dream for theater: Toss the old business model in the dumpster fire of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z She won a Tony Award in 1994 for her powerful role as Medea, avenging her husband’s betrayal in the classic Greek play by Euripides. Diana Rigg, acclaimed actress known as ‘sexiest TV star of all time,’ dies at 82 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z There’s a whole section of the play in which every line that Euripides utters is answered by Aeschylus with the nonsensical phrase “Lost his little bottle of oil.” Perspective | Whether it’s a Greek play or an American sitcom, nothing lasts forever 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z He is to Aristotle, Milton and Locke, is not to Euripides, Hobbes and Madison. Is Donald Trump a tyrant? It depends — Euripides would say no, but Aristotle might say yes 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z If there’s a common thread in the divergent art of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, it is in their shared commitment to complexity — to wrestling with contradiction, ambiguity and indeterminacy in matters of the gravest import. A theater critic's letter to his students, past, present and future 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z What separates Sophocles from his ancient Greek rivals, Aeschylus and Euripides, is his genius for character drawing. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z She continued to act periodically and, after several failed plays, triumphed again on Broadway in “Medea,” by classical Greek dramatist Euripides and directed by her husband. Zoe Caldwell, Broadway star who won four Tony Awards, dies at 86 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “One of my professors, who was born in 1915, was convinced this was all a veiled reference to Euripides’ impotence, that this was some allusion to the size of his manly apparatus. Perspective | Whether it’s a Greek play or an American sitcom, nothing lasts forever 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Familial love gone wrong has been the stuff of tragedy since Euripides, but in the rational, secular world many of us now inhabit, this modern tale of irrational love seemed all the more potent. Find yourself in the lives of others: what I learned from Philip Seymour Hoffman | Steve Rodgers 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z A stenographer, played by Fleming, arrives to transcribe his words; it emerges that the monologue is an adaptation of Euripides’ “Helen” garlanded with Monroe motifs. The Shed Attempts to Inject Culture Into Hudson Yards 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z There’s nothing wrong with this approach, as Euripides magisterially proved in his argumentative tragedies more than two millennia ago. ‘Hillary and Clinton’ playwright Lucas Hnath meticulously masters the messiness of life 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Kahn and Drew Lichtenberg, the STC’s literary manager, steered her toward “Orestes” by Euripides — a slightly later tragedian who took a darker view after Athens’s stark loss in the Peloponnesian War. 5 things to know to know about the ‘The Oresteia,’ the seldom-seen fountainhead of drama 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Trojan Women Archway Theatre Company updates Euripides’ ancient Greek tragedy set in the aftermath of the fall of Troy. SoCal theater listings, March 31-April 7: The Reduced Shakespeare Company, ‘Poor Yella Rednecks’ and more 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z As a child, she absorbed radio soaps and “Creature from the Black Lagoon” alongside Euripides and Shakespeare, playing the chorus in “Iphigenia in Aulis” in fourth grade. The Hallucinatory Realism of Rachel Ingalls 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z At the age of nearly 90, the Financial Times described her performance in Euripides' The Trojan Women as "unbearably moving... at the extreme limits of pathos". Obituary: Fenella Fielding 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Euripides wrote “Bacchae” near the end of his life when he was living away from Athens, perhaps in self-imposed exile. Review: Euripides' 'Bacchae' is spellbinding in modern update at the Getty Villa 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z “We are being spoken to directly by Euripides from the 5th century BC,” Bogart says. Essential Arts: Frank Gehry isn't done with Disney Hall and how 'Sweat' evokes America's fault lines We are being spoken to directly by Euripides from the 5th century BC. How is a play from 405 BC relevant in the Age of Trump? Director Anne Bogart wants to show you 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z As he imagined the stop in ancient Greece, he spoke of his expectation that he would bump into Pluto, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes. Martin Luther King's last 31 hours: the story of his final prophetic speech 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Fenella Fielding survived a violent upbringing to play Ibsen, Shakespeare and Euripides on stage. Obituary: Fenella Fielding 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Euripides is more curious about our shifting relationship to the god than in the hubris that brings about the downfall of an idealistic, if arrogantly misguided, young king. Review: Euripides' 'Bacchae' is spellbinding in modern update at the Getty Villa 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z For me, they led to Herodotus’ The Histories, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, and the ancient Greek playwrights like Sophocles and Euripides. New Sentences: From Emily Wilson’s Translation of the ‘Odyssey’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Included in this is the Greek playwright Euripides' The Bacchae, which features scenes of women tearing cattle and humans to pieces. Students warned over Shakespeare gore 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In Britain, Lady Jane Grey translated Euripides and, in the 17th century, Lucy Hutchinson produced the first complete translation into English of Lucretius. Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z On the other hand, as I reread the versions of the Electra story by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, I found that I heard Electra’s voice too clearly. Colm Tóibín: how I rewrote a Greek tragedy 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Contemporary writers around the world, for example, can’t get enough of “The Trojan Women,” Euripides’ 415 B.C. play about women being divvied up as slaves for Greek warriors who’d killed their Trojan husbands and brothers. Life during wartime: Civic Rep’s new ‘Trojan Women’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s a new year, and there are new shows to see: “Britain’s Baking Challenge,” “Finding Neverland,” “14/48” and a Euripides drama. Theater picks: New year brings 4 new stage shows 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z And, according to Matthew Wright, professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, the works we have by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are neither necessarily the best plays of their time, nor especially representative. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Theatrically, how do you solve a problem like Medea, the totemic figure of female revenge immortalized by Euripides? At Seattle Shakespeare, a ‘Medea’ who is plenty angry 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z When I began to study closely a late play by Euripides called Iphigenia in Aulis, however, I began to see Clytemnestra as more complex, her wounded voice as more needy and uncertain. Colm Tóibín: how I rewrote a Greek tragedy 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Another reinvention of Euripides’ “The Trojan Women,” set in the maternity ward of a postwar women’s prison. Life during wartime: Civic Rep’s new ‘Trojan Women’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Civic Rep stages Caroline Bird’s retelling of Euripides’ anti-war tragedy, set in a modern prison hospital. Theater picks: New year brings 4 new stage shows 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z For example, Wright believes he has identified “around 19 tragedies” that featured the heroine Medea – who, in the one surviving play about her, by Euripides, takes revenge on her faithless husband by killing their children. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z She read Woolf and Chekhov and Euripides and, most significant, Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble.” Hari Nef, Model Citizen 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The bad girl is a stock character so ancient that tracing its origins is both impossible and unnecessary, but Euripides’ Medea is the quintessential early example. The cool girls, good girls and bad girls of modern books 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z This “Trojan Women” is a concise and sharp swipe at Euripides’ continuously popular tragedy, and helps explain why we can’t leave it alone. Life during wartime: Civic Rep’s new ‘Trojan Women’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The theme is the classical story of Phaedra, the queen who falls passionately for her stepson Hippolytus – as told by Euripides, Seneca and most famously Racine. Isabelle Huppert: ‘I’d love to work with Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach’ 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Alexander the Great’s favourite play, for example, was decidedly jolly: in Euripides’s lost Andromeda, which told the story of the heroine’s rescue from death by the hero Perseus, the two marry. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Homer, Euripides and Virgil are all doing weekly stints at a New York women's prison this spring. Homer, Virgil hauled to New York prison for Ivy League class 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Euripides wants to liberate women but he is really worried about what is going to happen to children if women are liberated. Rachel Cusk interview: ‘Medea is about divorce … A couple fighting is an eternal predicament. Love turning to hate’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z He studied classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew and, for a senior thesis, staged his own translation of “Bacchae” by Euripides in a makeshift outdoor amphitheater. Review: ‘The Theater of War’: Applying Greek Tragedies to Our Own 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z While in rehearsal, on a stage outfitted as a razor-wired prison yard, we saw photos from Sarajevo of starving prisoners dealing with some of the same issues Euripides dealt with thousands of years earlier. Letters to Calendar: Let's talk Ancient Greeks 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Another Euripides play, Protesilaus, about the first hero to be killed in the Trojan war, told of the dead man’s being brought back to life for a day because his wife loved him so much. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Women suffragists recited at their meetings the resounding speech that the tragedian Euripides gives his heroine Medea on the economic, political and sexual oppression of the entire female sex. Classics for the people – why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z But institutions survived thanks to their research funds and cash reserves, says Euripides Stephanou, rector of the University of Crete in Heraklion. Outcry over Greek plan to borrow cash from universities 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z That festival gave rise to the careers of the three great tragic playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Latest News: Greek Bailout, Cold Weather, the Oscars 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z As an actor, I played the three male roles in Euripides' "Trojan Women" during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Letters to Calendar: Let's talk Ancient Greeks 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Like the plays of Sophocles and Euripides, Seneca’s dramas are based on myths. The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Going back further, the Greek poet Euripides, who died about 406 BC, is sometimes quoted as writing: "The tongue is mightier than the blade." Who first said 'The pen is mightier than the sword'? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z One contributor, a doctoral student at Columbia, came up with a wonderful idea: Colleges should assign Euripides’ The Bacchae as the common summer reading for incoming freshmen. Higher Education Week in Review: Dec. 1-7 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Last year she co-produced Euripides’s Trojan Women in Arabic in Jordan, and she is a co-producer for We Are All Refugees. Days of Our Refugee Lives At the time, I was visiting the camps looking for a place to stage Euripides’ great anti-war tragedy, The Trojan Women, as a drama therapy project for refugees. Life in a Jordanian Refugee Camp Inspires Soap Opera In the preface to her book Grief Lessons, translations of four plays by Euripides, Anne Carson muses on grief. Colm Tóibín: the literature of grief 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The classics students of The Secret History, under the sway of a charismatic though ultimately elusive tutor, decide to recreate a Dionysian rite out of Euripides' The Bacchae in the woods of New England. Donna Tartt: Is this the year of The Goldfinch? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The earliest musical document that survives preserves a few bars of sung music from a play, Orestes by the fifth-century BC tragedian Euripides. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z At the time, I was visiting the camps looking for a place to stage The Trojan Women, Euripides’s great antiwar tragedy, as a drama therapy project for refugees. Days of Our Refugee Lives Most of the amateurs had worked on last year’s production of Euripides’ The Trojan Women, which played last year in Amman. Life in a Jordanian Refugee Camp Inspires Soap Opera The forgiveness of sins is an inextinguishable strand in European consciousness and literature, from Euripides and Shakespeare to Tolstoy, Camus and Hardy. Lance Armstrong, human weakness, and the subtle art of public confession 2013-01-12T12:54:44Z Euripides is even more scathing: "Whoever helped his fatherland by winning a crown for wrestling … Will they fight against the foe with a discus in their hands?" Letters: These are Games of two halves – high security and abseil absurdity 2012-07-23T19:59:03Z However, we can recognise that Euripides adopted another principle. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z Why did Athens between 440 and 380 B.C. produce Plato, Socrates, Thucydides, Herodotus, Euripides, Aeschylus and Aristophanes, all in the same place and time? America’s ‘genius cluster’ in sports 2012-06-29T18:21:33Z The Greek playwright Euripides was right: Question everything, learn something, answer nothing. The Irrationality of Irrationality: The Paradox of Popular Psychology 2012-04-27T15:15:03.580Z If we now pass back several centuries, we find Euripides attributing to Polyxena a trait precisely similar to that which was attributed to Perpetua. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Now all that was most brilliant in Greek literature and Greek art was concentrated in the court of Aegae; the palace was decorated by Zeuxis; Euripides spent there the end of his days. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z It is often forgotten that the writings at the root of Western literature - the epics of Homer, the love-poems of Sappho, the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides - were all, originally, music. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z But the dramatic art has undergone many changes since the days of Euripides. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z In the time of Euripides, a Greek could have said almost as much. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Euripides is said to have had two wives.559.Aristotle said that Homer never gives a concubine to Menelaus, in order to intimate his respect for Helen—though false. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z She was the subject of a tragedy by Euripides and an epic by Colluthus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z It may even be music Euripides himself wrote. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z The plays of Euripides had been to the ancient world the first great revelation of the supreme beauty of the gentler virtues. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Another is a ballad of the famine, with lights as ghastly as ever glowed in the imagination of Euripides or Dante, and founded on horrors such as Greek or Italian never witnessed. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The sinuous course of the sun among the constellations is mentioned in literature as far back as Euripides as an explanation of the presence of the dragon in archaic systems of mythology. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Homer and Euripides were the favourite authors of Heliodorus, who in his turn was imitated by French, Italian and Spanish writers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Euripides was a notoriously avant-garde composer, and this indicates one of the ways in which his music was heard to be wildly modern: it violated the long-held norms of Greek folk singing by neglecting word-pitch. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z The Theater of Dionysus, in which �schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides produced their dramas, is of stone and silver-white marble. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z He had begun Latin and Greek early, and under Latimer made such progress as to be able to translate the Medea of Euripides into Latin iambic verse before he was fourteen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Now Euripides happened not to be born till about fourscore years after �sop's death. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z It is inconceivable that a Hebrew, or anyone but a Greek, could have written such a passage with its double series of allusions to Greek mysteries and to Euripides' Bacch�. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Those few who were able to sing Euripides' latest songs were able to earn some food and drink. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z If the Library of Alexandria had made a copy of every book and sent it to India or China, we’d have the other works of Aristotle, the other plays of Euripides. Internet Archive?s Repository Collects Thousands of Books 2012-03-03T23:57:16Z Furthermore, Browning had before him a model of Balaustion in her enthusiasm for Euripides, in Mrs. Browning. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The foregoing lines, from Burgess's able restoration of this splendid scene in the Bacch� of Euripides, published in the Gentleman's Magazine for Sept. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-07T03:00:08.550Z Seneca's preëminence as a model for tragedy, however, was in general not contested, but rather increased by the growing knowledge of Euripides and Sophocles. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Take," says Euripides in the Bacchæ, "take the drums, the invention of the Phrygians and the mother Rhea. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Was the Greek writer partly parodying, in accordance with the tradition of the old comedy, partly reproducing a tragedy of Euripides? and was the representation first accepted as a recognised burlesque of a familiar piece? The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Aristophanes avows he can show cause why he wrote them, but glances off in a sarcastic reference to Euripides, whose art he says belongs to the closet or the cave, not to the world. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z He did not like Euripides or even Homer. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Seneca's plays, probably not intended for stage presentation, were literary exercises following the models of Greek tragedy and more especially of Euripides. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z His versions of the Oedipus of Sophocles and of the Iphigenia of Euripides were rewarded by the Hungarian Academy, of which in 1838 he was elected honorary member. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z It requires a longer familiarity with the mind and heart of antiquity to realise and enjoy the full meaning of Sophocles, Thucydides, or Aristophanes, than of Homer, Euripides, or Theocritus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Aristophanes, evidently piqued, does not answer, but makes personal remarks upon the manner of her speech, asking her if she learned tragedy from him—Euripides. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z This aspect of memory has never been more clearly stated than by Gilbert Murray in his Life of Euripides. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Adaptations of Euripides were numerous, half a dozen of which were presented at the theatres. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z They called themselves friends of the Hellenes, and not only was Greek spoken, but even the tragedies of Euripides were acted at their courts. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z His fragments show familiarity with Homer, with the works of the Greek physical and ethical philosophers, with the systems of the rhetoricians, and some acquaintance with the writings of Plato, Archilochus, Euripides, and Aesop. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But the critics of the day complained that Euripides degraded the ideal character of tragedy by painting human nature as he found it: in fact as it was, and not as it ought to be. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The typical Athenian, Euripides, was so much deeper-dyed in skepticism than any one since that day, that really no one has ever lived who could cross-question him—let alone expound the meanings of his plays. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z "As if," says Macaulay of some pointless reference to a Greek play by a Shakespearean commentator, "as if only Shakespeare and Euripides knew that mothers loved their children." Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z The distinctive interest of Euripides is of Euripides. another kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The later poets, on the other hand, such as Euripides and the writers of the new comedy, were not indeed more truly human, but were less distinctively Greek than their immediate predecessors. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This poem taken, with Balaustion, gives the reader not only a comprehensive view of the historical atmosphere of the time but indirectly shows the poet’s own attitude toward the literary war between Euripides and Aristophanes. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Murray represents popular scholarship to a degree which would have shocked Matthew Arnold, just as Arnold himself would have been poison to Nauck—Nauck the author of the text of Euripides. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z In Milton he found an echo of Euripides' misogynism and from "Paradise Lost" and "Samson Agonistes", he compiled a pretty set of accusations against female usurpations. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Euripides marks a period of transition in the tragic art, and is, in fact, the mediator between the classical and the romantic drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z It was, like the Medea of Ennius, a translation from Euripides. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z That sort of thing can be done by one who has turned his back on life, friendly faces, sympathetic cheer, as Euripides had done in his Salaminian cave. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z They have instinctively and innocently attached their little oil-can to the coattails of Euripides and of the other great Attic writers. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Yet when he read Homer, Euripides, Cicero, Shakespeare, and even Buchanan, Jefferson had a clear and single purpose. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Euripides himself was imbued with the new intellectual scepticism of the day; and the speculative views which were conflicting in his own mind are reflected in his plays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Of other Greek authors, Homer and Euripides are those of whom we find most traces in the poem. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Where then did Euripides find these splendid women of force and character? Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z In the Alcestis Euripides made one of the best plays in the world, full of true pathos, full of jovial humor, both of which sometimes verge upon the burlesque. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z The present writer, who was at Merchant Taylors’ School from 1842 to 1850, used Xenophon, Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, and some volume of Analecta. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z Aeschylus was the reputed author of 70 tragedies, Sophocles of 113, Euripides of 92; and there were others whose productiveness was equally great. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z One at least of his tragedies, the Medea, was literally translated from the Greek of Euripides, whom he seems to have made his model, in preference to the older Attic dramatists. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Nor is it entirely improbable that she might be prophetic of a time when Euripides will be recognized as the true power. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z In reading Euripides, we find ourselves, at moments, ready to classify him as a satirist, and at other moments as a man of feeling. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z It is mentioned by many other Greek authors, �schylus, Euripides, Aristotle, and others. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Aeschylus, Euripides and Lycophron; but it was certainly not written with a view to the dramatic production. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z In his Hecuba, also, and probably in his Iphigenia, Ennius made free use of the dramas founded on the same subjects by Euripides. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He seems utterly incapable of appreciating the humanness of the women in the Greek dramatists, especially those in Euripides. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z But it has been observed that many of the ethical reflections of the great dramatists, and in particular of Sophocles and Euripides, are gnomic distiches expanded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Theophrastus is, we believe, the first to describe the touchstone, although it was generally known to the Greeks, as is evidenced by the metaphors of many of the poets,—Pindar, Theognis, Euripides, etc. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Of the eighteen that remain of the sixty to ninety plays of Euripides, the Iphigenia at Tauri is one of the most remarkable. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Mr. Ellis's commentary largely illustrates the influence exercised by the phraseology of the Greek poets,—especially Homer, Euripides, Apollonius—on the poetical diction of Catullus in this poem. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Would that Euripides had even been familiar, as Homer was, with the sound of women brawling in the streets! Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Homer and Euripides, Virgil and Horace wrote quite tolerably without the help of tobacco, though no one can read Horace without feeling that he had the true spirit of the tobacco cult. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z On the other hand, they censure these verses of Euripides: "Plutus is the god for wise men; all else is mere folly and at the same time a deception in words." De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Euripides was a great favorite with Milton and Fox. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z From most of the classic authors, such as Homer, Tibullus, Horace, Ovid, Euripides, Aristophanes, Virgil, &c., we gather that every Greek and Roman house had its altar on which fire was ever burning. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z They are painted so coarsely and ignorantly by Euripides that we should never recognize them but for their names. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z More and more he became filled with the grandeur of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles and Euripides above all others. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The lines are assigned, however, to Philemon, not Euripides. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z As a versifier Pisida is correct and even elegant; as a chronicler of contemporary events he is exceedingly useful; and later Byzantine writers enthusiastically compared him with, and even preferred him to Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The fire, according to Euripides and Ovid, must be kept pure—no polluted object might be cast into it, no offensive action might be performed in its presence. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Certainly, the opinion expressed of the women of Euripides is tainted by the feeling that they ought to act like English matrons and their daughters. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z He was nearly double the age of the world's greatest dramatist, was seventeen years older than Euripides, and just as old as Sophocles. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Sophocles is said to have observed that while he represented men as they ought to be, Euripides described them as they were. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Euripides was doubtless in his day a sensation dramatist, but the atrocities of Medea could not enchain me, with so much dreadful mystery afoot in my immediate neighbourhood. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Xenophanes complains that the wrestler’s strength is preferred to the wisdom of the philosopher, and Euripides, in a well-known fragment, holds up to scorn the brawny swaggering athlete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z But neither was Euripides in any sense a savior. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Then he continues: "The 'Œdipus Coloneus' of Sophocles and the 'Supplicants' of Euripides have not honored Athens more than thou hast Amsterdam." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The poet Euripides celebrated this victory, and Alcibiades, after offering solemn sacrifices to Jupiter, feasted the entire multitude assembled to witness the games. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z This is the point at which Euripides could find nothing fitter for Hercules to utter than the awkward boast, “Thou wilt some day say that the son of Jove was a capital guest to entertain.” The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Poets like Pindar, Simonides and Euripides sung his praises, and sculptors like Pheidias and Praxiteles were engaged by the state to carve his statue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Much of Aristophanes’ defence consists in slurring at Euripides, against whom he waxes more and more fierce as he goes on. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z By others this drama was thought to combine the tenderness of Euripides with the sublimity of Sophocles. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z After gaining a high reputation as a dramatist, Euripides retired to Macedon, to the court of King Archelaûs. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z For he relates that Callias the Athenian composed a Grammatical Tragedy, from which Euripides in his Medea, and Sophocles in his Œdipus, derived their choruses and the arrangement of their plot. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Dwelling too exclusively on this aspect of life, who does not echo the wish of Euripides: "Not to be born is the best, and next to die as soon as possible." Man's Redemption of Man A Lay Sermon 2011-08-02T02:00:20.160Z But the significant fact is that, like Ibsen, Euripides refuses to idealize any man, and does idealize women. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z In others, as in the "Leeuwendalers," where he sings the triumph of peace, is the sweetness and the feminine strength of Euripides. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Euripides has founded one of his most beautiful tragedies upon this story. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z But Euripides not choosing openly to display to sight an unseemly and disgusting object, revealed as much as he chose. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z It was impossible for Euripides, a sceptic, even in a sceptical age, to approve sincerely of the god whom he was obliged to celebrate. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z She judges Euripides not as he appeared to his own Greeks, but as he strikes the warmest of his admirers, who compare his work with that of all the poets who have ever lived.” Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z There is a melodramatic element in the 'Medea' of Euripides, as there is in the 'Rodogune' of Corneille; and in the Elizabethan theater the so-called tragedy of blood is nothing if not melodramatic. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Euripides is ridiculed by Aristophanes in “The Frogs” for collecting books. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z According to Euripides, Drinking is sire of blows and violence. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z So sings the drunken and bemused Indra, in the manner of the Cyclops in Euripides, after receiving the wine, the treacherous gift of Odysseus. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Away from Athens, too, Euripides was a power; hence his defence is put into the mouth of one not an Athenian. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z In the later pieces of Euripides, the third and most modern of the Attic tragedians, we note that the drama has almost wholly disengaged itself from the lyric out of which it sprang. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Aristophanes’ Apology; including a Transcript from Euripides, being the last adventure of Balaustion. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And Euripides, introducing Hecuba lamenting for Astyanax, who had been thrown down by the Greeks, says— Unhappy child, how miserably have Your native city's walls produced your death, And dash'd your head in pieces! The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Leaving aside the Orphic poems, which contain most of the facts in the legend of Dionysus Zagreus, the Bacch� of Euripides is the chief classical record of ideas about the god. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z She had saved a shipload of Athenian sympathizers by reciting Euripides when they were in danger from the hostile Syracusans. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z But in Euripides the choral odes are more detached from the drama; beautiful in themselves, they seem to exist rather for their own sake than in any integral relation to the play itself. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z As they voyage, for her consolation she will record her recollections of her Euripides in Athens, and she bids her husband set down her words as she speaks. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z But Duris, in his treatise on Euripides and Sophocles, says that Alcibiades learnt music, not of any ordinary master, but of Pronomus, who had the very highest reputation in that line. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In the Bacch�, then, Euripides had to honour the very patron of his art. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z These circumstances are certainly sufficient to prove the appropriateness of making a Rhodian girl the defender of Euripides. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The Alexandrian tragedians came long after Euripides, and to their sophisticated taste his pathetic and emotional plays appealed far more than the austerer and manlier masterpieces of his two great predecessors. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z She will tell of Euripides and his undying work. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z S. That has been done: how shall I throw Euripides? The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The explanation is absurd, but it shows how Euripides could transfer the doubt and distrust of his own age, and its attempt at a philological interpretation of myth, to the remote heroic tunes. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z He looks about the room, sees things that belong to Euripides, and immediately begins stabbing at him. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Thus Euripides, who, often enough, was neither simple nor naïve, could be parodied, and Aristophanes has shown us with what felicity. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z She recalls the night when Athens was still herself, when they heard the news that Euripides was dead—“gone with his Attic ivy home to feast.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And it was borrowing from him that the wise Euripides wrote— Venus abides in fulness, and avoids The hungry stomach. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The names stand for the elemental passions, and I can come to them through my own gates of today as well as through the ancient portals of Aischylos or Sophocles or Euripides.” Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z After this Balaustion asks Aristophanes if he will commemorate Euripides with them. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Anyone who has read the awful tragedy that Euripides has written in the Bacchae will have had brought home to him a typical example of psychic contagion. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z But when Euripides was at rest, censorious tongues ceased to wag, and the next thing to do was to build a monument for him! The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And they also erected a statue of Euripides in the theatre next to the statue of Æschylus. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z There we are told that Ascham, Cheke, and Watson had many pleasant talks together at Cambridge, comparing the poetic precepts of Aristotle and Horace with the examples of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Aristophanes becomes the scapegoat of Athenian sins, while Euripides shines forth a saint as well as a sage. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Leighton had taken the lines from Euripides as his text:— "There slept a silent palace in the sun, With plains adjacent and Thessalian peace." The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z And so, with all his chorus troop, he comes to the home of Balaustion, as representing the Euripides whom he disliked and satirised, to celebrate his success. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides, in the Bacchæ, says that Bacchus Gave men the wine which every grief dispels; Where wine is not, there Venus never dwells, Nor any other thing which men hold dear. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In the third place, the action of the Troades, an excellent tragedy by Seneca, could not have occurred in one day, nor could even some of the plays of Euripides or Sophocles. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The younger was to the elder somewhat as Sophocles or Euripides was to �schylus, as Virgil was to Lucretius, as Pope was to Dryden. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Sometimes he opened AEschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides, and, translating freely, transported us into a world gone by, but beautiful and human in its passions and sorrows. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z The poison-drama of Euripides has mortified the flesh of the men of Athens, so nothing but warfare can purge it. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The remnants to the dogs they're wont to throw, Euripides says, in his Cretan Women. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He points out that Euripides, in the Heraclid�, on account of the long distance between the places in the action, had been unable to limit the action to one day. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Racine had produced a play from Euripides, the “Ph�dra,” on which he had unstintingly bestowed his best genius and his best art. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Upon asking the crew whether they knew any of the verses of Euripides, and being answered in the affirmative, they released both them and their vessel. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z His first feud with Euripides was when he maintained that we should enjoy life as we find it instead of magnifying our miseries. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And Euripides, in his Suppliant Women, says of Capaneus— This man is Capaneus, a man who had Abundant riches, but no pride therefrom Lodged in his, more than in a poor man's bosom. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z His favourite authors were Euripides, Virgil and Racine, whom he defends against the stock criticisms of the admirers of Corneille with equal zeal and insight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Corneille was �schylus; Racine was Sophocles; and, of course, Euripides had his counterpart in Voltaire. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z But it was evidently in Greek, in the philosophical poetry of Euripides and the poetical philosophy of Plato, that she found her deepest satisfaction. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Euripides would talk about the empty name, while the thing’s self lay neglected beneath his nose. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And the Athenians gave Pothimos the puppet-master the use of the very stage on which Euripides had exhibited his noble dramas. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Possible plots were becoming more and more scarce; Euripides did not wish to adopt trite themes, and so went into the by-ways of mythology, or adopted a less well-known alternative version of a well-known legend. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z In fact, La Bruy�re’s celebrated comparison of the two Frenchmen—made, of course, before Voltaire—yoked them, Corneille with Sophocles, Racine with Euripides. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The Cyclops of Euripides is the only example extant of this kind of play. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Aristophanes represented the whole Republic,—gods, heroes, priests, legislators, poets—all these would have been in the dust, pummelled into insignificance, had Euripides had his way. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides says— Fierce bulls, their passion with their horns displaying. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Euripides has also been accused, by Aristophanes and by many less entertaining writers, of taking away all the dignity of tragedy. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z He was fond of philosophical speculations, and made the Romans acquainted with the rationalism of Euripides and Euhemerus. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Euripides, the latest of the three, is a great poet and a champion of the weak, such as women and slaves; moreover, he sees deeply into men's hearts. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z No longer to Euripides is there one plain positive enunciation, incontestable, of what is good, right, decent here on earth. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z "You remember what the young gentleman says in the Latin poet, 'Sum Davy, non sum Euripides.'" The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Sophocles represented men as they ought to be, Euripides represented them as they were. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z That Ennius’ drama was translated from Euripides, is sufficiently manifest, from a comparison of its fragments with the passages of the Greek Andromeda, preserved by Stobæus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He based his work upon Euripides, but he suppressed everything that makes Euripides tender and human. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z ‘Arise and go: both have done honour to Euripides!’ The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The whole are compared with the parallel passages in the Medea of Euripides. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The old tragedy was too tightly bound by convention to suit Euripides, who wished to portray living men and women, and to have an exciting plot. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Euripides is the author from whom Ennius has chiefly borrowed the fables of his tragedies; and when Sophocles and Euripides have treated the same subject, the latter poet has been uniformly preferred. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The time supposed to elapse does not exceed twenty-four hours; not more than in the Electra or Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The one adventure of her life that made Euripides her friend was the story of Hercules and Alcestis. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z We have seen that Polyphemus, in a piece of Euripides, boasts of making more noise, when he had supped well, than the thunder of Jupiter. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z His subjects were chiefly mythological, and he delighted in ridiculing the tragic poets, especially Euripides. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Indeed, so convinced of all this were the Greek dramatists, that, in many of their plays, as the Hecuba and Hippolytus of Euripides, the issue of the drama is announced at its commencement. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The age of Æschylus has not with us been succeeded by that of Sophocles and Euripides, but by that of melodrama and spectacle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Let stand Athenai!” and so, as Euripides had saved the Athenian exiles in Syracuse harbour, now he saved Athens herself. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z None of the crowds in Greece who went to somewhat more beautiful stadiums in search of Euripides ever saw the spirit of tragedy more truly presented. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Euripides did not take any part in public life, but devoted himself entirely to a life of speculation and to writing plays. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The Syracusans, who put to death so many of their Athenian prisoners in cold blood, and with frightful tortures, spared those of them who could recite the verses of Euripides. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In what play of Euripides is singleness of interest more completely preserved than in that noble tragedy? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z In the tragedy, as left by Euripides, Diana appears by the young man’s dying bed and comforts him, telling him also that to perish thus was his fate:— The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z “Dante and Virgil visiting the Envious Men struck with Blindness,” and “Euripides writing his Tragedies,” belong to the museum at Lyons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Euripides was originally trained as an athlete, but conceived an intense dislike for that occupation. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z There is just enough of this play extant to have satisfied Columna, one of the editors of Ennius, that it was taken from a tragedy of the same name by Euripides. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z At half-past five Walker and I come in with Euripides, which is the last repetition: then I work in my own room till six, when we have tea, with bread and butter and cake. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The Raging Hercules of Euripides, which Balaustion read to Aristophanes, is translated by Mr. Browning in the volume Aristophanes’ Apology. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z There was old Blair at one end of the table, hacking at a shoulder of mutton, and talking, as he did so, to Bruce about Sophocles and Euripides. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z The Rhesus, a feeble production long attributed to Euripides, is almost certainly not his work. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The plots of Sophocles are more complex than those of Æschylus; but the tragedies of Euripides are the most involved of all. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The year commonly assigned to Euripides' birth is a good instance of ancient method in these things. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Afterwards, however, when the general officers met at an entertainment, a musician of Phocis happened to begin a chorus in the Electra of Euripides, the first lines of which are these— The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides became the virtual founder of the romantic drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The work of Euripides still retains the power of arousing strong likes and dislikes. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z This is a free translation from the Greek Hecuba, perhaps the most tragic of all the dramas of Euripides. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Of the eleven comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us three are largely devoted to Euripides, and not one has managed altogether to avoid touching him. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Momos, the god of pleasantry: he satirised the gods; Makaria, one of the characters in the Heraclidæ of Euripides: she devoted herself to death to enable the Athenians to win a victory. p. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It is a representative Intriguenst�ck, and well exemplifies the peculiar power which recommended Euripides to the poets of the New Comedy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The truth is that if the tragedies of �schylus and Sophocles are looked upon as models for all Greek tragedy, Euripides falls far short of his models. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Euripides also is said to have written a play entitled Alcmena, on the story of Amphitryon, but how far Plautus may have been indebted to him for his plot cannot be now ascertained. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In Euripides' time it was more famous for its temples. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z She saved her companions in the ship by which she fled from Rhodes by reciting to the people of Syracuse the Alcestis of Euripides. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Casaubon, in a letter to Scaliger, salutes that scholar as worthy to have lived at Athens with Aristophanes and Euripides—a compliment which certainly implies respect for his correspondent’s powers as a peacemaker. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Euripides has been accused by his detractors of degrading his art, because he opened his plays with a prologue and ended them with the intervention of a god. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The play of Ennius, however, on the same subject, was a version of a tragedy of Euripides, now chiefly known from the ridicule cast on it in the fifth act of Aristophanes’ Feasts of Ceres. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z One of the ancient lives says that it was this sense of the antagonism between Anaxagoras and the conservative masses that turned Euripides away from philosophy. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And so they rowed them in to Syracuse, crying, “We bring more of Euripides!” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In popular literature, too, where Aeschylus and Sophocles were as yet little known, the 16th and 17th centuries testify to the favour bestowed upon Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Had it been, Euripides would surely have written comedies. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z It thus appears that in his prologues Plautus approached nearer to Euripides than to those comic writers whom in his argument and all other respects he chiefly followed. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z And we never find Euripides conversing with Socrates in Plato's dialogues. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z She visited Euripides, kissed his sacred hand, and paid her homage. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides now became the object of criticism from a new point of view. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Euripides is, in fact, the earliest writer of romantic plays, a fact well illustrated by his Alcestis, which is one of his best plays. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z It is probable enough, however, that some of the serious parts may have been copied from the Alcmena of Euripides. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z If more evidence of the great gulf was needed, it was supplied emphatically enough in the experience of Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z To those who are willing to decide literary questions upon detailed evidence, I submit that analysis shows the widest divergence between the Admetus of Euripides and the Admetus sung by Balaustion. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The choral songs in Euripides, it may be granted, have often nothing to do with the action. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z They enjoyed themselves while pulling Euripides to pieces much as schoolboys who have detected a flaw in the armour of their master. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Sophocles had written a tragedy on the topic of the well-known Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides; but it is the latter piece which has been adopted by the Roman poet. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It was clearly based on the old ritual, and it treated one of Euripides' great subjects, the passions of a suffering and savage woman. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Mr. Moulton says: “My position is that Browning, in common with the greater part of modern readers, has entirely misread and misrepresented Euripides’ play of Alcestis. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z So far from censuring Euripides on this score, we should be disposed to regard his management of the chorus as a signal proof of his genius, originality and skill. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z In his greatest plays, however, Euripides can bear comparison with any poet. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The lines in the Latin play, to which parallel passages cannot be found in Euripides, he believes to be of Ennius’ own invention. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It is probably earlier than the Alcestis, and is interesting because it shows Euripides writing for once without any arrière pensée, or secondary intention. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And nothing can be clearer than that such a sacrifice is taken for granted by the personages who appear before us in Euripides’ play. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides is said to have written 92 dramas, including 8 satyr-plays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z For better and for worse Euripides is a very modern poet, and makes a special appeal to the present generation. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z He believes that Euripides wrote a Medea, which he afterwards revised and altered, in order to obviate the satiric criticisms of Aristophanes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z And the case he had to plead was characteristic of Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The modern poet, who best understands Euripides, has followed his example in this point:— The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It marks in the most signal manner, and perhaps at the earliest moment, that great movement which began with Euripides,—the movement of transition from the purely Hellenic drama to the romantic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The women had little cause to congratulate themselves on securing Aristophanes as a champion, for his scorpions are far more stinging then Euripides' whips. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Telephus is probably taken from a lost play of Euripides, ridiculed by Aristophanes in his Acharnenses, from a scene of which it would seem that Telephus had appeared on the stage in tattered garments. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The remaining play of the trilogy performed in 438 strikes a chord that proved more dangerous to Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The greater part of them perished here, but Plutarch tells us that some among them who could recite the verses of Euripides were liberated from captivity.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides gained the third prize, the first falling to Euphorion, the son of Aeschylus, and the second to Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Euripides, however, though he died shortly before Sophocles, belonged to a younger and quite different generation, and held different views about art, morality, religion, and almost everything of importance. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z In the productions of Agathon, and even in some dramas of Euripides, tragedy had descended from its primeval height, and represented the distresses of domestic life, though still the domestic life of kings and heroes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Euripides is, as a matter of fact, not loose but highly austere in his moral tone. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Some there were who owed their preservation to Euripides. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The drama illustrates the skill with which Euripides, while failing to satisfy the requirements of artistic drama, could sustain interest by an ingeniously woven plot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The dethroning of Euripides was the result of a German conspiracy, carried out with much energy by Niebuhr, and with even more by Schlegel. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Iphigenia.—Ennius, as already mentioned, appears invariably to have translated from Euripides, in preference to Sophocles, when the same subject had been treated by both these poets. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z There is another element also, and perhaps one that will better stand the test of impartial criticism, in Euripides' ideal of Athens. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z In this comedy the Athenian ladies have resolved to punish Euripides, and the poet is in dismay in consequence, and takes measures to defend himself. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides left Athens, and after a residence in the Thessalian Magnesia repaired, on the invitation of King Archelaus, to the Macedonian court, where Greeks of distinction were always welcome. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z But, some one may say, Euripides and the Pythagoreans and Orphics are no evidence for the first century; whatever good there may have been in such schools and communities, it had ceased long before. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z Medea.—This play is imitated from the Medea of Euripides. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Euripides was considered in antiquity a bookish poet. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z She has met the great poet Euripides, paid her homage to his genius, and has received from his own hands his tragedy of Hercules. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The death of Euripides, whatever its manner, occurred in 406 B.C., when he was seventy-four. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z What do we say to Homer, Plato, Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Aristotle, Demosthenes, and the rest of the great Hellenic cluster which these represent! The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z The Cyclops of Euripides, which turns on the story of Ulysses in the cave of Polyphemus, is the only example entirely extant of this species of composition. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Now Euripides had a friend called Timocrates, who was an Argive; so it looks as if the play had been produced in Argos. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z “Hail house,” he said, “friendly to Euripides!” and he spoke flatteringly, but in a slightly mocking tone, as men who are sensual defer to spiritual women whom they rather affect to pity while they admire. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Yet here we see how truly Euripides was the precursor of that near future which, at Athens, saw the more complete divergence of society from the state. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Or, again, the speeches of Aethra in Euripides' Suppliant Women, where more stress is laid on mercy and championship of the oppressed. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z Like Euripides, Ovid, and Juvenal, Massinger is a writer whose faults are patent; all the more important, therefore, is it to make his merits quite clear. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z And among them there is a quite ancient document called Life and Race of Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z “Curds and whey” might suit Euripides, the Apologist must have marrowy wine. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides was only fifteen years younger than Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z But Euripides has transformed the primitive nature-god into a mystic and passionate longing for "all manner of high deed," a Love which, different from that described in the preceding chorus, really ennobles human life. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z The Latin plays of Buchanan, sometimes biblical in topic, rest, as to their form, upon Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z His main work was to record all that affected Athens—history, myths, festivals, and customs, but he also wrote various special treatises, one of which was On Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And so Euripides triumphed, though he rarely gained a prize. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Euripides made a splendid effort to maintain the place of tragedy in the spiritual life of Athens by modifying its interests in the sense which his own generation required. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It seems as if Euripides had deliberately departed from his usual soft and reflective style of ending in order to express the peculiar note of discord which is produced by the so-called "satisfaction" of revenge. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z These tragedies were for the most part adaptations and, in some cases, translations from Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z No wonder that one of Euripides' earliest plays, when he took to writing, was the story of Rhesus, the Thracian, and his rushing hordes of wild tribesmen. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And Aristophanes, wielding the comic weapon, closed with the enemy in good honest hate, called Euripides one name and fifty epithets. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z No play of Euripides has been more severely criticized. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The Medea is one of the earliest of Euripides' works now preserved to us. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z Gilbert Murray, with his fascinating and tantalizing versions from Euripides, gave a new flexibility to the expansion that was going on in English dramatic ideas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z But meantime Euripides had not found his work in life. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Socrates he nicknames chief quack, necromancer; Euripides—well, he acknowledges every word is false if you look at it too close, but at a distance all is indubitable truth behind the lies. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It is because Euripides was not in accord with the spirit of the heroic myths that he is not strong in mythic travesty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Thus, the meeting with Aegeus is probably not the free invention of Euripides, but one of the data supplied to him by his subject. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z Euripides longs that there may be no future state; and Plato only secures the immortality of the soul by severing it from the person—the man, and all his interests. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The great "Sophist," Protagoras, had read his famous book, On the Gods, in Euripides' own house. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z It was Euripides who caused the fight, and Aristophanes has beaten him; if, however, Balaustion can adduce anything to contravene this, let her say on.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The Rhesus is still held by some to be what the didascaliae and the grammarians call it—a work of Euripides; and Paley has ably supported this view. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z In several plays of Euripides, when a heroine hesitates on the verge of a crime, the thing that drives her over the brink is some sudden and violent lowering of her self-respect. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z But any honest reader of Euripides will see at once how far he too is removed from the ordinary realisms of life. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Some of the younger artists seem to have found a friend in Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The first scenes of this tragedy are very affecting; Euripides knew the way to the heart, and as often as his subject leads him to it, he never fails to excite the tenderest pity. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The art and the style, still more evidently the feeling and the mind, of Euripides are absent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It is a scheme which occurs again and again in Euripides, a study of oppression and revenge. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z Thus Euripides, though justly considered in his own society the most tragic of poets, has for this very reason ceased to appeal to us as Æschylus still appeals. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z And the chief enemy, Aristophanes, must, to judge from his parodies, have known a large number of Euripides' ninety-two plays by heart, and been at least half fascinated by the object of his satire. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z So with Euripides: he gets his knowledge merely from one single aperture—that of the High and Right; till he fronts this he writes no play. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z When the first protests of the comic poets were over, Euripides was secure of a wide and lasting renown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z But Euripides gives us nothing so sympathetic, nothing so cheap and unreal. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z Thus Euripides is never tired of traducing the Spartans in the character of Menelaus. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The youth of Euripides fell in an age which saw perhaps the most extraordinary intellectual awakening known to human history. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z There can be no question, then, what Euripides thought about the character of Admetus. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Racine’s great English contemporary seems to have known and to have liked Euripides better than the other Greek tragedians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The play was a protest by Euripides against his own moralizing tendencies. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In the very next generation the poets had drifted away from them, and Euripides despises rather than admires them. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z This whole spirit was specially incarnate in another of Euripides' teachers. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And will the objector seriously contend that Euripides has, without intending it, presented a character which must in fact be pronounced selfish? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The manuscript tradition of Euripides has a very curious and instructive history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Nietzsche gives us a profound interpretation of Euripides's play in the twelfth section of The Birth of Tragedy. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Hermann, who collected what he took to be "imitations" of early poets in the Rhesus, noted only 25 of Sophocles, 38 of Aeschylus, and 84 of Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z Euripides is the child of a strong and splendid tradition and is, together with Plato, the fiercest of all rebels against it. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Euripides has used these circumstances as the basis of his tragedy of Alcestis. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Had these three plays been lost, it is not too much to say that the modern estimate of Euripides must have been decidedly lower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z He mentions among writers of the first order, Ibsen, Euripides, Byron, Wilde and La Rochefoucauld, and Shakespeare in Hamlet. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In Euripides' later years Drama was moving rapidly away from all these things and, as far as we can judge, continued so moving after his death. 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