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For Further Reading Collard, Christopher, Euripides, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981. Foley, Helene, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, Princeton, New Jersey, 2001. Halleran, Michael, Stagecraft in Euripides, London, Croom Helm, 1981. McDonald, Marianne, Euripides in Cinema: The Heart Made Visible, Philadelphia, Centrum, 1983. ----- Ancient Sun, Modern Light: Greek Drama on the Modern Stage, New York, Columbia University Press, 1992. ----- Sing Sorrow: Classics, History and Heroines in Opera. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2001. ---- The Living Art of Greek Tragedy, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2003. Stanford, W. B., Tragedy and the Emotions: An Introductory Study, New York, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Walton, J . Michael, Greek Theatre Practice, Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. -----Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production, Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1987. ----- The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Reviewed, 2 nd ed., London, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. 16
Webster, T. B. L., The Tragedies of Euripides, London, Methuen 1967. Wiles, David, Greek Theatre Performance: an Introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000 Zuntz, G. The Political Plays of Euripides, 1955; rpt. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1963. Euripides: Key Dates NB All dates are BC ca. 485/4 or 480 Euripides born 455 First competed at the Greater Dionysia. 442 Won his first victory at the Greater Dionysia. 438 First extant play, Alcestis, performed fourth in a group of four. 431 Medea Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. 428 Hippolytus 416 The sack of the island of Melos. 17
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Page 3 and 4: Tragedy and Comedy in Athens were p
Page 5 and 6: The goddess Athene, his niece, trie
Page 7 and 8: This play was performed in 415 BC,
Page 9 and 10: This play shows us a new type of he
Page 11 and 12: Original Staging The original Athen
Page 13 and 14: Syracuse after the ill-fated Sicili
Page 15: The most popular of Euripides’ pl
Page 19 and 20: CASSANDRA (ca-SAN-drah), daughter o
Page 21 and 22: SCAMANDER (sca-MAND-er), river in T
Page 23 and 24: [Troy in ruins is smoking in the ba
Page 25 and 26: Athena Did you know that the Greeks
Page 27 and 28: The prows of the ships With swift b
Page 29 and 30: Half-chorus B Has some Greek messen
Page 31 and 32: Hecuba Here it is women. The moment
Page 33 and 34: What are you saying? She’s alive,
Page 35 and 36: Where I served you as my lord. 330
Page 37 and 38: [Aside] These men in their high sta
Page 39 and 40: I was royal and I married royalty,
Page 41 and 42: Hecuba, See here’s Andromache, Br
Page 43 and 44: Hecuba All in smoke. Andromache Oh
Page 45 and 46: Andromache We are dragged off as bo
Page 47 and 48: to Greece, a prisoner of the spear,
Page 49 and 50: Andromache May his sons also suffer
Page 51 and 52: Your life is ripped away from us, f
Page 53 and 54: She is one of the defeated slaves,
Page 55 and 56: he came, that nemesis, whether you
Page 57 and 58: Menelaus [To Hecuba] I agree with y
Page 59 and 60: And shout as they weep. A little gi
Page 61 and 62: uilt high by Loxias, have shorn fro
Page 63 and 64: Hecuba [Keening] Oimoi moi. Chorus
Page 65 and 66: Talthybius [To his soldiers] Seize
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A holy man in unholy slaughter. Hec
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