Euripide

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Euripide : Andromache

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The Troy War took place. Achille died. In Pharsale, in Thessaly, his son Neoptolemus, alias Pyrrhus, received, in taking of war, the flower of the spoil: the Trojan queen Andromaque. He made it his mistress, had a child of her. For the time being, he is absent, giving his thanks to Apollo in Delphi. Hermione, his legitimate wife, suspects the slave and his philtrs to be the cause of his infertility. A Barbare can on…

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Euripide : Hecuba

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The Troy War took place: Greek ships and their captive procession will return home from the shore of Chersonese. But the shadow of Achilles, the "best of the Achaeans", demands that he be honored with the blood of a virgin (response to the inaugural sacrifice of Iphigénie?): the victim will be Polyxene, daughter of Priam and Hecube. Meanwhile, another shadow appeared, the ghost of Polyxene's brother, Polydore, kille…

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Euripide : The Trojan Women

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Prologue: Poseidon opens the drama by evoking the birth of Trojans and the Greeks' capture of the city thanks to the ploy of the Trojan horse. It recalls the horrors perpetrated within the Troyan camp: the death of Priam, the tragic fate of the Trojans destined to end up slaves, the murder of Polyxene (daughter of Hecube) on the tomb of Achilles, the future sacrilegious weddings of Cassandre, consecrated priestess o…

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Euripide : The Bacchae

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So the religiosity is lost: let us give Dionysos the worship which is due to him and he takes possession of his faithful, Menades and Bacchantes, to plunge them into a frantic trance; but let us come to abandon him as in Thebes, the city of Semélé his mother, and the worst risk then. to come.. With the Bacchantes we are precisely in excess. Dionysos is a god apart. He questions the human order and reveals the other …

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Euripide : Medea

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Famous Greek tragedy of 431 B.C., staging Medea, abandoned wife of Jason who preferred her daughter Creon, banished and killed her two young sons. Coverage 4 Euripide 480 BC - 406 BC More attentive to describing human passions in their truth and counting than to celebrating the greatness of legendary heroes, he was the most modern of Greek tragic poets. After the fabulous journey of the Argonauts, Jason takes as…

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