Sign-In
Cart
Helen and Three Other Plays: Phoenician Women, Ion, and Cyclops
Paperback
Series: Euripides, Book 4
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 20 2020
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the three tragedies of this volume, Euripides presents careful studies of people in an inescapable trap, caught through no fault of their own in the crossfire between rivals.
The real Helen - not the beautiful but sinister phantom that went off with Paris to Troy - is stuck in Crete waiting for her husband, Melelaos, while being pursued by Theoclymenos, the island's king.
In Phoenician Women, a retelling of the Oedipus myth, Jocasta - who in Euripides' version did not hang herself - must witness the death of her two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles who are fighting over the throne of Thebes.
Ion, too, is trapped in Apollo's temple where he must serve as a caretaker. He is without a name and without a past, without a mother and without a memory, the very stuff, the very substance of a mortal.
The final play, Euripides' Cyclops, is the only satyr play that has survived the tortuous travails of history. It is a play that rolls as clowns roll on the floor of a Circus as pirates capture Dionysus and the Cyclops Polyphemus captures Odysseus and his men... and there is plenty of wine!
Also in
Fiction Anthologies
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Pirsig, Robert M.
Pirsig, Wendy K.
Hardcover
James Weldon Johnson: Writings (Loa #145): The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / Essays and Editorials / Selected Poems
Johnson, James Weldon
Hardcover
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Shelley, Mary
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Paperback
Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt
McCourt, Malachy
McCourt, Frank
Hardcover
Here in New England: Unforgettable Stories of People, Places, and Memories That Connect Us All.
Allen, Mel
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Paperback
Learn Russian with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Russian to English
Hyplern, Bermuda Word
Gettys, Serafima
Van Den End, Kees
Paperback
Obvious Adams -- The Story of a Successful Businessman: New Business Edition
Updegraff, Robert R.
Paperback
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews
Poe, Edgar Allan
Hardcover
Bookin' in the Big House: What I Learned Leading a Women's Prison Book Club
Devoto, Pat Cunningham
Paperback
Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free Online Audio Recording)
Sato, Eriko
Sato, Anna
Paperback
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, volume 1
Fager, Anders
Cubas, Cristina Fernández
Pedraza, Pilar
Paperback
The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio (Facsimile Reprint)
Randall, E. O.
Randall, Emilius Oviatt
Paperback