The film records The Performance Group's performance of Euripides ’ The Bacchae, starring, amongst others, De Palma regular William Finley.

Maenads have been depicted in art as erratic and frenzied women enveloped in a drunken rapture, the most obvious example being that of Euripides ’ play The Bacchae.

In Euripides ’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon is told by Calchas that in order for the winds to allow him to sail to Troy, Agamemnon must sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis.

In Euripides ’ other story about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, the play takes place after the sacrifice and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

2002: Fiona Shaw plays title role of Euripides ’ Medea, directed by Deborah Warner ; following its BAM run the Abbey Theatre production moves to Broadway

Gascoigne translated two plays performed in 1566 at Grays Inn, the most aristocratic of the Renaissance London Inns of Court: the prose comedy Supposes based on Ariosto ’ s Suppositi, and Jocasta, a tragedy in blank verse which is said to have derived from Euripides ’ s Phoenissae, but appears more directly as a translation from the Italian of Lodovico Dolce ’ s Giocasta.

Unique masks were also created for specific characters and events in a play, such as The Furies in Aeschylus ’ Eumenides and Pentheus and Cadmus in Euripides ’ The Bacchae.

Talthybius appears in Euripides ’ Hecuba and The Trojan Women.

Additional depictions such as the surviving version of Euripides and the French dramatist Racine, stated that Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of Phaedra ’ s love.

Among Euripides ’ entries, Haigh underlines Theristae ( 431 BC ), Sisyphus ( 415 BC ) and Alcestis which Euripides was allowed to present as a replacement of the traditional satyr play.

The 2006 play was Euripides ’ s Medea, directed by John Taylor.

At school he wrote his thesis on Euripides ’ play The Cyclops.

An interpretation suggested by the text of the fragmentary papyrus remains of Euripides ’ s Erichtheus wherein her life is demanded in order to save the city from Eumolpos and the Eleusinians.

Williams is also an acclaimed translator, notably of Sophocles ’ Women of Trachis and Euripides ’ The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski and the French poet Francis Ponge.

Consequently, one reading of the play, especially from a patriarchal mindset, would have Euripides place blame for the Trojan War and the fall of the House of Atreus at Helen ’ s feet.

Euripides challenges the role of the gods and perhaps more appropriately man ’ s interpretation of divine will.

Unlike Sophocles, who established the setting and background of his plays in the introductory dialogue, Euripides used a monologue in which a divinity or human character directly and simply tells the audience all it needs to know in order to understand the subsequent action.

Eurystheus was a character in Heracleidae, a play by Euripides.

He appears as a character in Euripides ' tragedy Andromache ( c. 425 BC ).

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

Much of what is known about the character comes from Euripides ' tragic play, The Bacchae.

However, according to Euripides ' Ion, in which she is a prominent character, Creusa was mother of Ion by Apollo, while Xuthus was infertile so he accepted Ion as his own son.

Hecuba is a main character in two plays by Euripides: The Trojan Women and Hecuba.

Electra is the main character in two Greek tragedies, Electra by Sophocles and Electra by Euripides, and has inspired other works.

Extant plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides on the tale of Orestes and Electra do not include her as a character.

Two tragedies by Euripides, Melanippe The Prisoner and Melanippe The Philosopher, were dedicated to this character.

Euripides is frequently the butt of jokes in Aristophanes ' plays and he appears as a ludicrous character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

* Euripides: One of the great tragic poets, he is the butt of jokes in many of Aristophanes plays and he even appears as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).

In Aristophanes ' play Thesmophoriazusae the playwright parodies Euripides ' frequent use of the crane by making Euripides himself a character in the play and bringing him on stage by way of the mekhane.

* Euripides: A controversial tragic poet, he is lampooned in all Aristophanes ' plays and he even features as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).

The ancient Greek poet Homer introduced Ulysses ( Odysseus in Greek ), and many later poets took up the character, including Euripides, Horace, Dante, William Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope.

Euripides ' use of the mechane in Medea ( 431 BC ) is a notable use of the machine for a non-divine character.

There then follows a series of farcical scenes in which Euripides, in a desperate attempt to rescue Mnesilochus, comes and goes in various disguises, first as Menelaus, a character from his own play Helen-to which Mnesilochus responds of course by playing out the role of Helen-and then as Perseus, a character from another Euripidean play, Andromeda, in which role he swoops heroically across the stage on a theatrical crane ( frequently used by Greek playwrights to allow for a deus ex machina )-to which Mnesilochus of course responds by acting out the role of Andromeda.

In that play, the character Euripides lends the protagonist, Dicaiopolis, some theatrical costumes from his plays.

In ' Thesmophoria ', on the other hand, the character Euripides dresses Mnesilochus in a costume borrowed from Agathon.

* Euripides: A tragic poet renowned for his innovative plays and pathetic heroes, he appears as a ridiculous character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs and he receives numerous mentions in other plays.

This form, perhaps best exemplified by the Alcestis of Euripides, ends with a hero or god decisively beating an evil character.

The only example is the Suffering of Christ ( Christus Patiens, Χριστος πασχον ), written in the eleventh or 12th century ; of its 2, 640 verses, about one-third are borrowed from ancient dramas, chiefly from those of Euripides, and Mary, the chief character, sometimes recites verses from the " Medea " of Euripides, again from the " Electra " of Sophocles, or the " Prometheus " of Aeschylus.

In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).

Some of the others include Troades by Euripides, Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Iphigenia and Polyxena by Samuel Coster, Palamedes by Joost van den Vondel and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz.

According to some versions of the legend, the hunting goddess Artemis replaced her at the very last moment with a deer on the altar, and took Iphigenia to Tauris ( See Iphigenia en Tauris by Euripides ).

Scene from the tragedy Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides.

Badham published editions of Euripides, Helena and Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1851 ), Ion ( 1851 ); Plato's Philebus ( 1855, 1878 ); Laches and Eutzydemus ( 1865 ), Phaedrus ( 1851 ), Symposium ( 1866 ) and De Platonis Epistolis ( 1866 ).

In Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia's mother and Helen's sister, begs her husband to reconsider his decision, calling Helen a " wicked woman ".

* Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.

* Euripides, Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen ( The Complete Greek Tragedies ) ( Vol 4 ), University Of Chicago Press ; 1 edition ( April 15, 2002 ).

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

Euripides has two stories about Iphigenia.

The earliest known accounts of the death of Iphigenia are included in Euripides ' Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, both Athenian tragedies of the fifth century BCE set in the Heroic Age.

The reason for many discrepancies in the telling of the myth is because playwrights such as Euripides modified the stories about Iphigenia to make them more palatable for the audiences and make sequels using the same characters.

* Iphigenia at Aulis, play by Euripides.

* Iphigenia in Tauris, play by Euripides.

The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides ' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.