Orestes and Other Plays: (Classics S.)

One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484 406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity, and in their use of the gods as symbols of human nature. The three plays in this collection show his abilities as the sceptical questioner of his age. Alcestis, an early drama, tells the tale of a queen who offers her own life in .

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume contains Phoenician Women , Bacchae , Iphigenia at Aulis , Orestes , and Rhesus .

After the Fall of Troy, King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover.

Aeschylus takes as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, its spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.

Contains the classical tragic trilogy The Oresteia , which traces the passage of Greek emancipation from belief in blind necessity and from unquestioning submission to savage divinities. This is a companion volume to Aeschylus Plays: One which includes Prometheus and The Persians .

Includes Oresteia , Agamemnon , The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides .

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies, Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and ...

The Satires of Horace (65 8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's friends, deals with the problem of achieving contentment amid the complexities of urban life, while Epistles II and the Ars Poetica discuss Latin poetry ...

This title is a collection of Euripides' plays.