Euripides
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High King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma of his life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the Trojan War? A father's secret plot clashes with a girl's romantic dreams in this chilling classic play from Ancient Greece.
The most powerful dramatic script by EURIPIDES springs to life anew in a fresh adaptation by writer EDWARD EINHORN (Paradox in Oz, Fractions in Disguise, The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein)...
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"Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose...
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Euripides I contains the plays Alcestis, translated by Richmond Lattimore; Medea, translated by Oliver Taplin; The Children of Heracles, translated by Mark Griffith; and Hippolytus, translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent...
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One of the greatest Greek tragedians, Euripides gives dramatic articulacy to his remorseless view of human nature, and a world in which the gods are malevolent, impotent, or simply absent. With extraordinary psychological insight he portrays a child-killing and vengeful mother, a stepmother's passion for her stepson, and a heroine who helps to murder her mother in an act blurring the boundaries between justice and sin. The satyr drama 'Helen', although...
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According to NatWest, 60% of women who have considered starting a business did not; due to a lack of self-worth and confidence.
Brains, Beauty, Boss: The Ultimate Guide for Women in the Workplace explores the intersection between female empowerment, entrepreneurship and career advancement. Sharing the incredible accounts of women from the Forbes 30 under 30 list such as the co-founder of Betches, Facebook's Head of Global Business Strategy and...
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Our Wedding Story volume 3
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After traveling the world in hopes of someday finding her soul mate, Sarah meets Euri in her local town and they fall in love. Inspired by its beautiful scenery and their love for travel, this couple indulge in an adventurous and unforgettable week of wedding celebrations with their family and friends in Fiji.
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What is it like to chase the American Dream and succeed?
Eleftherios' Journey to Success: A Greek Immigrant's Story takes readers on an adventure from a quaint village in Greece, across the Atlantic, and right through Ellis Island to the Eastern Coast of the United States. After serving in the Royal Hellenic Army during the Greek Civil War from 1946-1949, Eleftherios immigrates to America with a big dream-the American dream. He works hard, faces...
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The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy. The conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles over the fate of the young woman presages a similar conflict between the two at the beginning of the Iliad. In his depiction of the experiences...
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"Of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, Aeschylus in the first part of the [fifth] century, took his tales largely from Homer and the heroic world of war and warriors. Sophokles [Sophocles] regarded men more humanistically, and created characters of grand moral integrity. Euripides, the last of the three, created his image of man less heroically, less idealistically. His image of man reflected what Athens became from mid-century onward:...