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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.
Euripides character of Iphigenia holds many complex meanings that stem from her decision to willingly sacrifice herself.
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.

Euripides and Iphigenia
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 ).
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.
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.

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After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.
Such comic ' evidence ' suggests that Athenians admired Euripides even while they mistrusted his intellectualism, at least during the long war with Sparta.
The dialogue often contrasts so strongly with the mythical and heroic setting, it looks as if Euripides aimed at parody, as for example in The Trojan Women, where the heroine's rationalized prayer provokes comment from Menelaus:
They are self-conscious about speaking formally and their rhetoric is shown to be flawed, as if Euripides was exploring the problematical nature of language and communication: " For speech points in three different directions at once, to the speaker, to the person addressed, to the features in the world it describes, and each of these directions can be felt as skewed.
Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.
Aeschylus gained thirteen victories as a dramatist, Sophocles at least twenty, Euripides only four in his lifetime, and this has often been taken as an indication of the latter's unpopularity with his contemporaries, and yet a first place might not have been the main criterion for success in those times ( the system of selecting judges appears to have been flawed ) and merely being chosen to compete was in itself a mark of distinction.
August Wilhelm's Vienna lectures on dramatic art and literature went through four editions between 1809 and 1846 and, in them, he opined that Euripides " not only destroyed the external order of tragedy but missed its entire meaning ," a view that came to influence Friedrich Nietzsche, who however seems not to have known the Euripidean plays at all well.
The plays of Euripides, like those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, were circulated in written form in the fifth century among literary members of the audience and performers at minor festivals, as aide-memoirs.
The mytheme of the Judgement of Paris naturally offered artists the opportunity to depict a sort of beauty contest, with three beautiful female nudes trying to appease a male judge, but the myth, at least since Euripides, rather concerns a choice among the gifts that each goddess embodies.
He goes on to quote Euripides at some length, writing in praise of wives.
Euripides started changing Greek myths at will, including those of the Trojan War.
* Euripides ' play Medea wins third prize at the Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival.
a ) Menelaus resolved to kill Helen but Euripides tells us that, when he found her, her striking beauty prompted him to drop his sword and take her back to his ship “ to punish her at Sparta ”, as he claimed, but in reality she got away with it.
Euripides then leaves Athens in dissatisfaction and travels to the court of Archelaus I of Macedon at the King's invitation.
According to Alcestis by Euripides, Apollo killed the Cyclopes, in retaliation for Asclepius's murder at the hands of Zeus.
* Euripides ' The Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis are performed posthumously as part of a tetralogy at the City Dionysia festival and win first prize.
In the version put forth by Euripides in his play Helen, Hera fashioned a likeness of Helen ( eidolon, εἴδωλον ) out of clouds at Zeus ' request, Hermes took her to Egypt, and Helen never went to Troy, spending the entire war in Egypt.
The Bacchae (, Bakchai ; also known as The Bacchantes ) is an ancient Greek tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides, during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedonia.
It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides ' son or nephew probably directed.

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