The Trojan Women - Euripides - Translated by Edward P. Coleridge - A Greek Tragedy - The Trojan Women, also known as Troades, is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier that year. 415 BC was also the year of the scandalous desecration of the hermai and the Athenians' second expedition to Sicily, events which may also have influenced the author. The Trojan Women was the third...
The Trojan Women - Euripides - Translated by Edward P. Coleridge - A Greek Tragedy - The Trojan Women, also known as Troades, is a tragedy by the Gree...
The Bacchae of Euripides - Euripides - Translated by Edward P. Coleridge - The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. 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 are assumed to have directed. It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition. The Bacchae is concerned with two opposite sides of human nature: the rational and...
The Bacchae of Euripides - Euripides - Translated by Edward P. Coleridge - The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright...
