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.

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

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.

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

Euripides () ( c. 480 – 406 BC ) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Euripides and other playwrights accordingly composed more and more arias for accomplished actors to sing and this tendency becomes more marked in his later plays: tragedy was a " living and ever-changing genre " ( other changes in his work are touched on in the previous section and in Chronology ; a list of his plays is given in Extant plays below ).

However, in Cyclops ( the only complete satyr-play that survives ) Euripides structured the entertainment more like a tragedy and introduced a note of critical irony typical of his other work.

" Euripides however was more fortunate than the other tragedians in the survival of a second edition of his work, compiled in alphabetical order as if from a set of his collect works, but without scholia attached.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.

In Euripides ' play and other art forms and works the Dionysiac only needs to be understood as the frenzied dances of the god which are direct manifestations of euphoric possession and that these worshippers, sometimes by eating the flesh of a man or animal who has temporarily incarnated the god, come to partake of his divinity.

The number of Niobids mentioned most usually numbered twelve ( Homer ) or fourteen ( Euripides and pseudo-Apollodorus ), but other sources mention twenty, four ( Herodotus ), or eighteen ( Sappho ).

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

Pylades accompanies Orestes, but does not speak in other versions of Orestes ' and Electra's revenge story: Sophocles ' Electra and Euripides ' Electra.

Tragic poets sometimes produced their plays in other cities ( Euripides ' play Andromache for example was possibly performed in Argos just before The Clouds appeared at the City Dionysia ) yet comic poets in Aristophanes ' time wrote specifically for local audiences and their plays were studded with topical jokes that only a local audience could understand.

Among his other works are a History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III ( 1688 ), an epic work numbering 900 + pages, in which he introduces long and elaborate speeches into the narrative ; editions of Euripides ( 1694 ) and of Homer ( 1711 ), also one of Anacreon ( 1705 ) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish.

Milman also wrote " When our-heads are bowed with woe ," and other hymns ; an admirable version of the Sanskrit episode of Nala and Damayanti ; and translations of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchae of Euripides.

Tragic heroes appear in the dramatic works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Corneille, Racine, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Strindberg, and many other writers.

Besides his work on Homer, Crates wrote commentaries on the Theogony of Hesiod, on Euripides, on Aristophanes, and probably on other ancient authors ; a work on the Attic dialect ; and works on geography, natural history, and agriculture, of all of which only a few fragments exist.

Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias, The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens.

* Euripides: Frequently a target of Aristophanes ' plays, the tragic poet is mentioned in line 61 as the butt of tired, old jokes that are made by other comic poets.

The peculiarities that distinguish the Euripidean tragedies from those of the other two playwrights are on one hand the search for technical experimentation carried out by Euripides in almost all his works and he puts more attention in the description of feelings, of which analyzes the evolution that follows the change in events.

Mei also edited and annotated the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides, as well as many other works by classical writers.

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

Also, other than this play and the two plays known to date to 412, we do not know of any such escape plays by Euripides ; if he produced two that year, why not three, which might make a particularly strong impression if the escape theme was one Euripides wished to emphasize that year.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

The story of Medea's revenge on Jason is told with devastating effect by Euripides in his tragedy Medea.

Proteus of Egypt is mentioned in an alternate version of the story of Helen of Troy in the tragedy Helen of Euripides ( produced in 412 BC ).

However, in Euripides ' lost version of the story, it appears that Antigone survives.

In the beginning of Euripides ' Phoenissae, Jocasta recalls the story of Oedipus.

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.

The story of Polyeidos and Glaucus was the subject of a lost play of Euripides, his Bellerophon, and of one by Aeschylus, and Sophocles ' lost The Mantises.

This story was probably the subject of Euripides lost Alcmaeon in Corinth, which was produced posthumously.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

His story was told by Aeschylus in his Seven against Thebes, by Euripides, and by the Roman poet Statius.

Euripides placed this story twice on the Athenian stage, of which one version survives.

The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the state of Athens ' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead.

Two versions of this story appear in Euripides ' play Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's play Phaedra.

( From some ancient Greek paintings many people believe Ajax raped Cassandra, and the verb that Euripides used to describe Ajax's " taking " of Cassandra can also be translated as rape, but it does not directly say that in this story ) What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women.

The Songs of Kings was a novel published in 2002 by Barry Unsworth that retells the story of Iphigenia at Aulis told by the Greek tragic poet Euripides.

Troezen is also the setting of the Euripides tragedy Hippolytus, which recounts the story of the eponymous son of Theseus who becomes the subject of the love of his stepmother, Phaedra.

When Sophocles heard that, he composed an epigram against Euripides in the following sense, alluding to the story of the North Wind and the Sun, and at the same time satirising Euripides ' adulteries: