Critical essays on Euripides’ tragedies, examining gods, justice, and his theater of ideas across major plays.
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Critical essays on Euripides’ tragedies, examining gods, justice, and his theater of ideas across major plays.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M. W. Knox -- Watching the Trojan women / Eric A. Havelock -- Why the Trojan women? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Tragedy and religion : the Bacchae / Thomas G. Rosenmeyer -- Chronology of important dates.
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Sexual content
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Desire and marital conflict discussed in Hippolytus and Medea essays
Violence & gore
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Analyzes infanticide, war killing, and Bacchae ritual dismemberment
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Substance use
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Dionysian wine and ecstatic rites discussed in Bacchae criticism
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Greek gods, cult practice, and tragedy-and-religion themes are central
Magic & witchcraft
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Medea’s mythical sorcery referenced in critical discussion
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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War, justice, and social critique in Trojan Women and related essays
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide motifs noted in discussion of Hippolytus and related plays
Abuse & suffering
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Captive suffering, child murder, and wartime cruelty analyzed at length
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