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Euripides - Medea (Way Translation)

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a barbarian and the wife of Jason; she finds her...

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Euripides - Alcestis (Way Translation)

Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pherae who wins the friendship of the god Apollo. Apollo tricks the Eumenides...

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Sophocles - Philoctetes (Campbell Translation)

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles...

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Sophocles - Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)

Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. The story begins with Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, relating...

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Sophocles - Ajax (Campbell Translation)

Ajax is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC. The date of Ajax's first performance is unknown and may never be found, but most scholars regard it as an early work, c. 450 — 430 BC. It chronicles the fate of...

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Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation)

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Aeschylus - Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation)

The Suppliants, also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC. It was long thought to be the earliest surviving play by...

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Aeschylus - Seven Against Thebes (Way Translation)

Seven against Thebes is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by...

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Aeschylus - Furies (Morshead Translation)

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The...

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Aeschylus - Libation-Bearers (Morshead Translation)

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The...

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Sophocles - Antigone (Plumptre Translation)

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, «Antigone» has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience....

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Euripides - Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation)

Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as «perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written,» «The Trojan Women,» also known as «Troades,» is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC...

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Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound (Thoreau Translation)

Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, «Prometheus Bound» is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces...

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