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Author: Euripides
Publisher: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780299305246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree plays about women and the Trojan War, in fresh translations for the stage, the classroom, or the general reader. The publication of Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba in one volume also invites provocative engagement with issues of gender, history, warfare, and politics.
Author: Euripides
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pat Barker
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 038554670X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
Author: Peter W. Katsirubas
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2021-10-18
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1665539577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis literary novel explores the passions and motivations of the protagonists and the events of the Trojan War without the machinations of imaginary gods driving their behaviors and actions. Who were the lovers whose coupling ignited the clash of civilizations immortalized by Homer’s Iliad? What was their reality and that of the warriors and the women who were engulfed by the bloody conflict? According to myth, the war was precipitated by Aphrodite who promised Paris the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen the queen of Sparta, if he declared her winner of a beauty contest of goddesses. That fantasy did not occur nor were the actors’ puppets of invisible deities. So who sent Prince Paris across the ship-devouring Aegean Sea to Sparta and why? Did he abduct and rape Helen while King Menelaus was away or did she abscond with Paris to Troy? Did King Agamemnon of Mycenae lead an armada of unified Greeks to liberate his sister-in-law out of filial concern or for the ulterior reasons his wife Clytemnestra suspected? Why did the war that saw the lethal combats of heroes such as Achilles and Ajax and Odysseus and Hector drag on for ten years when Priam the king of Troy could have ended it by returning Helen? What roles did the Trojan women such as Hecuba and Andromache and Briseus and the self-proclaimed prophetess Cassandra play during the unending siege? What is the truth behind the conflagration of Troy?
Author: Margaret George
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-08-03
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 1101218797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller. The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy. Laden with doom, yet surprising in its moments of innocence and beauty, Helen of Troy is an exquisite page-turner with a cast of irresistible, legendary characters—Odysseus, Hector, Achilles, Menelaus, Priam, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, as well as Helen and Paris themselves. With a wealth of material that reproduces the Age of Bronze in all its glory, it brings to life a war that we have all learned about but never before experienced.
Author: Euripides
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2005-05-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1585104353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy The Trojan Women about the consequences of war; the victors and the fate of those defeated in war. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
Author: Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-08-31
Total Pages: 1227
ISBN-13: 9004435352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.
Author: Euripides
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Euripides
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780299305239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicole Loraux
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780801482427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period. She investigates the Athenian state's interdiction of ritualized mourning by women . . . (and) . . . illuminates . . . the institutional suppression of women as a political and social force in the most flourishing period of Athenian history".--Laura M. Slatkin, University of Chicago.
