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6 giu 2024 · Review of Daniel Mendelsohn, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays (Oxford, 2002). Martin Cropp. International Journal for the Classical Tradition 12.
3 giorni fa · The political relevance of Suppliants has always been noted; but the Ion of Euripides, produced in perhaps 412, has at least as strong a claim to be regarded as a political play, because it treats and reconciles the two crucial Athenian myths of Ionianism and autochthony—i.e., the essentially anti-Dorian and therefore anti-Spartan ...
12 giu 2024 · Lysistrata, comedy by Aristophanes, produced in 411 bce. Lysistrata depicts the seizure of the Athenian Acropolis and of the treasury of Athens by the city’s women. At the instigation of the witty and determined Lysistrata, they have banded together with the women of Sparta to declare a ban on.
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4 giorni fa · There are nineteen surviving plays attributed to Euripides. The most well-known of these plays are Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae. Rhesus is sometimes thought to have been written by Euripides' son, or to have been a posthumous reproduction of a play by Euripides.
5 giorni fa · During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his political allegiance several times. In his native Athens in the early 410s BC, he advocated an aggressive foreign policy and was a prominent proponent of the Sicilian Expedition.
6 giu 2024 · The action of the play, the purpose of which is to discover the murderer of Oedipus’s father and thereby to free the city from its curse, leads inevitably to Oedipus’s suffering—the loss of his wife, his kingdom, his sight.
3 giorni fa · A tragedy of mysticism, ecstasy and brutality, Euripides’ “Bacchae”, will be presented by the National Theatre, on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 August, at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, as ...
