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Greek Tragedy - Euripides

Surviving Tragedies by Euripides and Study Guides

Surviving Plays by Euripides

Alcestis 438, second prize	Alcestis - the play Plain text version AlcestisYale-New Haven Teachers Institute's study guide, by Kathleen O'Neil Alcestis study guide
Andromache ca. 425, not produced in Athens	Gilchrist Euripides' Andromache - Bryn Mawr Classical Review Andromache - the play Plain text version Andromache study guide
Bacchae after 406, posthumous first prize	Bacchae - Roger Dunkle's background to the play and synopsis The Iconography of Dionysus and the Bacchants - pottery images Dionysus: "But Thebes is the first city in the land of Hellas that I have made ring with shouts of joy, girt in a fawn-skin, with a thyrsus, my ivy-bound spear, in my hand; since my mother's sisters, who least of all should have done it, denied that Dionysus was the son of Zeus.... Wherefore these are they whom I have driven frenzied from their homes, and they are dwelling on the hills with mind distraught...." --From The Bacchae Robin Mitchell-Boyask's study guide to Bacchae Barbara MacManus - Background and Images for the Bacchae Bacchae study guide by Steve Esposito Bacchae study guide Plain text version of the Bacchae (Bacchantes)
Cyclops date unknown, possibly ca. 410	Cyclops - the play Plain text version Cyclops study guide
Electra ca. 420	Electra - the play Plain text version Electra study guide
Hecuba ca. 424	Hecuba - the play Plain text version Hecabe study guide
Helen 412	Helen - the play Plain text version Helen study guide
Heracleidae	Heracleidae - the play Plain text version David Kovacs' review of John Wilkins' "Euripides: Heraclidae"
Heracles ca. 430	Heracles - the play Plain text version Heracles study guide
Hippolytus 428, first prize)	Hippolytus - the play Plain text version Dr. Robin Mitchell-Boyask's study guide Hippolytus study guide John Gibert's review of Walter Stockert's "Euripides: Hippolytus"
ION ca. 413	Porter's Mythological Background to Euripides' Ion - Euripides wrote using mythic variants not often presented in drama, but in Ion he goes further, inventing almost the whole story. Ion - the play Plain text version Ion study guide
Iphigenia Among the Taurians - ca. 414 At Aulis after 406, posthumous first prize	Ifigenia - Greek movie (1977) Iphigenia at Aulis - the play Plain text version Iphigenia at Aulis study guide Iphigenia at Tauris - the play Plain text version Iphigenia at Tauris study guide.
Medea 431, third prize	Background of Medea - explains the divine origin of the golden fleece Medea - Danish movie (1988) Medea - the play Plain text version Roger Dunkle's Medea study guide Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Medea Study Guide
Orestes 408	Orestes - the play Plain text version Orestes study guide
Phoenician Women ca. 410	Phoenician Women - the play Plain text version Phoenician Women study guide Martin Cropp's review of Donald J. Mastronarde, "Euripides: Phoenissae"
Suppliant Women ca. 423	Suppliants - the play Plain text version
Trojan Women 415, second prize	Poseidon: "... with them Spartan Helen, daughter of Tyndarus, justly counted among the captives. And wouldst thou see that queen of misery, Hecuba, thou canst; for there she lies before the gates, weeping many a bitter tear for many a tribulation ... Cassandra, whom the king Apollo left to be a virgin, frenzied maid, hath Agamemnon, in contempt of the god's ordinance and of piety, forced to a dishonoured wedlock." --From Trojan Women Plain text version Trojan Women study guide

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