Iphigenia at Aulis and Orestes, all of Euripides. He also appears in Euripides’ Andromache. In Aeschylus's Eumenides, Orestes goes mad after killing his...
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this mythological material adapted from Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris, Oreste adds the character of Oreste's wife Hermione, searching for him to aid...
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trilogy (produced in 458 BC) is evident in Euripides' construction of the recognition scene between Orestes and Electra, which mocks Aeschylus' play. In...
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Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians...
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Orestes (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστης, Orestēs) (408 BCE) is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his...
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(Greek myth), other figures in Greek mythology Orestes (play), a tragedy by Euripides The Tragedy of Orestes, a play by Thomas Goffe first performed circa...
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replacing her with a deer. Euripides' other play about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, takes place after the sacrifice, and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra...
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Pylades (section Orestes and Pylades)
marry Orestes' sister Electra. Many of these events are depicted in Euripides' play Orestes. Pylades plays a major role in another of Euripides' plays...
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Iphigenia in Aulis (category Plays by Euripides)
the extant works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced...
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Iphigenia in Tauris (category Plays by Euripides)
a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, Helen, as well as the...
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wish to go back on his word, and took Hermione from Orestes and gave her to Neoptolemus. Orestes, thus insulted, slew Neoptolemus as he was sacrificing...
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Gantz, p. 552; Parada, s.v. Agamemnon; Euripides, Helen 390–392 Archived 2021-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, Orestes 16 Archived 2021-04-30 at the Wayback...
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by Aeschylus Electra, play by Sophocles Electra, play by Euripides Orestes, play by Euripides Electra, a lost play by Quintus Tullius Cicero of which nothing...
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Disciplina 51:73–102. Marzi, Giovanni. 1973. "Il papiro musicale dell' Oreste di Euripide (Pap. Vindob. G 2315)". In Scritti in onore di Luigi Ronga, 315–29...
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Katolophyromai (redirect from Euripides, Orestes 338-44 (Pap. Vienna G 2315))
is the headword in a musical fragment from the first stasimon of Orestes by Euripides (lines 338–344, Vienna Papyrus G 2315). It means "I cry, lament so...
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marry Orestes, with whom she had a son, Tisamenus. Ancient poets disagree over whether Menelaus was involved in both betrothals. Euripides has Orestes say:...
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Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom Agamemnon...
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number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles's Ajax, and Euripides's Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women. 1647 Menelaus...
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while Euripides gives his name as Molossus and Pausanias says that she has three children, named Molossus, Pielus and Pergamus. In Euripides' Andromache...
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Euripides's Orestes, Tyndareus was still alive at the time of Menelaus’ return, and was trying to secure the death penalty for his grandson Orestes due...
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above for the version that made Glaucus an Argonaut himself. In Euripides's play Orestes, Glaucus appeared in front of Menelaus on the latter's voyage home...
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Myths, section 108 (1960) Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 5; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 52 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 Apostol. Cent. 18.7 Scholia on Apollonius...
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Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 52; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 4 & 11 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 from Pherecydes, fr. 93 Robert...
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Children of Heracles (category Plays by Euripides)
in Euripides and Seneca", Fourth Series, Vol. 57, Fasc. 3 (2004), pp. 257–283 (27 pages) Karelisa Hartigan, "Euripidean Madness: Herakles and Orestes",...
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Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe) (category Plays based on works by Euripides)
ancient Greek tragedy Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις (Iphigeneia en Taurois) by Euripides. Euripides' title means "Iphigenia among the Taurians", whereas Goethe's title...
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Archelaus, the tragic poet Euripides for the smell of the poet's alleged bad breath. This outraged Archelaus who allowed Euripides to flog Decamnichos (or...
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Greek tragedy (section The realism of Euripides)
category a distinctly fifth-century Athenian flavor. The emphasis in Euripides’ Orestes on political factions, for example, is directly relevant to the Athens...
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any deity or demon who avenges wrongs committed by men. In Euripides' play Electra, Orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother,...
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unified character. Since Euripides' choruses seem less unified, Sophocles' choruses more often received praise, and Euripides' choruses criticized for...
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