How To Use Euripides In A Sentence
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November 16, 1990: Iphigénie à Aulis, by Euripides at the Cartoucherie.
Ariane Mnouchkine.
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The robe that Euripides's Medea sends as a gift glues together the flesh and the bones of her rival; but the sense that perceives the progress of this deadly confusion is sight.
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Hughes began his translation of Euripides in 1993, but only completed it just before his death in 1998.
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Euripides : I don't know. Probably the length of a typical workstation session . Say eight hours.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides
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The Bacchae, a play by the Greek tragedian Euripides , shows a dramatic view of the confrontation between instincts and institutions.
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Sometimes also called "The Poet and the Women", it is now considered one of Aristophanes 'most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, [3] with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.
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The Greek people and democracy have become sacrificial victims similar to Euripides's heroine in Iphigenia in Aulis.
Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism | Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. Euripides
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BRANDEIS THEATER COMPANY presents "Hecuba," a new translation of Euripides 'story of one woman's devotion and revenge, at Mainstage Theater, Brandeis University, 415 South St.,
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides
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'What about the "Sthenoboea" of Euripides, the "Revellers" of Ameipsias -- to which, as a matter of simple fact, what you call the suffrage of antiquity did adjudge the first prize, above Aristophanes' best? '
On The Art of Reading
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In the Aristophanes original, Aeschylus and Euripides debated over which of the two was the best tragedian.
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The Greek tragedian Euripides, for example, rarely took first prize in Athenian dramatic competitions.
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Euripides
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I count Euripides among them, and would also include in this category Aristotle, Rousseau, Hume, and Adam Smith.
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The association of music and drama goes back all the way to ancient Greece with the plays of Euripides and Sophocles.
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Bacchanals is this, that the women of the chorus, staid and temperate for the moment, following Dionysus in his alternations, are but the paler sisters of his more wild and gloomy votaries -- the true followers of the mystical Dionysus -- the real chorus of Zagreus; the idea that their [77] violent proceedings are the result of madness only, sent on them as a punishment for their original rejection of the god, being, as I said, when seen from the deeper motives of the myth, only a "sophism" of Euripides -- a piece of rationalism of which he avails himself for the purpose of softening down the tradition of which he has undertaken to be the poet.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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This is an adaptation of part of the parodos for Euripides' Bacchae.
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Cherubini could hardly have chosen more graphic models than the Euripides and Corneille treatments of the Medea myth.
Rodney Punt: Cherubini's Medea to Launch Long Beach Opera's New Season
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The history of ancient tragedy ends with Euripides, although there were a number of still later tragedians; Agathon, for instance, whom Aristophanes describes as fragrant with ointment and crowned with flowers, and in whose mouth Plato, in his _Symposium_, puts a discourse in the taste of the sophist Gorgias, full of the most exquisite ornaments and empty tautological antitheses.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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Orestes (Electra, Euripides) asks whether it may not be an avenging daemon (alastor) in the shape of a god, that bids him avenge his father.
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Euripides
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The Euripides story tells of a young and prudish king who tries to stop a vengeful God and his band of tutu-clad Bacchae from corrupting the women of his kingdom - including his own mother, Agave.
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It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved. Euripides
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What about the Sthenoboea of Euripides, the Revellers of Ameipsiasto which, as a matter of simple fact, what you call the suffrage of antiquity did adjudge the first prize, above Aristophanes best?
II. Apprehension versus Comprehension
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In addition to Frogs with its face-off between Aeschylus and Euripides there is the more obscure Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria, which calls mimêsis a disruption of life and opposes it to nature.
Plato's Aesthetics
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides
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Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour. Euripides
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Normal human conduct under given circumstances or for a particular kind of individual is described as nomos frequently by Euripides, who applies the term, for example, to the new standards of behavior which a woman has to adopt after marriage (Medea 238), to the rule to help the shipwrecked (Cyclops 299), to the love which all living creatures have for their offspring
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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But where dooth Euripides? even with the finding of the bodie, the rest leaving to be told by the spirite of Polidorus.
Defence of Poesie
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The National Theater of Scotland — founded in February 2006 with the young director Vicky Featherstone at the helm — opened the Lincoln Center Festival yesterday with its highly anticipated interpretation of Euripides '"Bacchae" at the Rose Theater.
'Musical Fireworks' Today at Avery Fisher
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From the froth of poetry, they rose to a contemplation of the old classics; Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Virgil, rising grandly from their dust, ensphered in vibratory eloquence.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The disparateness of Euripides' theatrical imagination plays to that expectation.
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Euripides characteristically opens his plays with a markedly non-naturalistic prologue.
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From classic Greece he names Aeschylus [Footnote: R.C. Robbins, _Poems of Personality_ (1909); C.le Young Rice, _Aeschylus. _] and Euripides.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. Euripides
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. Euripides
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Seneca produced his own versions of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.
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Medea and Zhao Wuniang are two abandoned women respectively in ancient Greek tragedian Euripides' tragedy Medea and classical Chinese tragedy The Story of the Pipa adapted by Gao Zecheng.
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It also discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing how later artists have responded to Euripides 'unorthodox heroine and her phantom double.
Fabula : à la une
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Athenians at the time may have recalled another great Greek expedition overseas, to Troy; Euripides' Trojan trilogy was produced in 415.
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Like Euripides she believed the sea could cure the ills of man.
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I'll never forget the power of certain moments: in Mitchell's production of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Clytemnestra is secured inside a building, distraught at her daughter's kidnap; then it starts raining through a hole in the roof, with helicopters blasting through from outside.
The artists's artist: theatre directors
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Introductions (attributed to Aristophanes) to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae (lists of dramatic productions) of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form.
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He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides
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It is interesting that she has attributed the lines to Euripides even though she has presumably obtained them from a source at several removes from the original.
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Youth holds no society with grief. Euripides
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides
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Euripides Iphigénie à Aulis (trans. by Jean and Mayotte Bollack).
Ariane Mnouchkine.
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Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour. Euripides
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Euripides was a contemporary of Sophocles but not a politician himself; he was an occasional diplomat and elegist of the glorious dead, but his dyspeptic feelings about the world — during a war against Sparta that Athens was beginning to lose — are clear from all his plays, not least this last of Carson's trilogy.
Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
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Euripides's darkly psychological study of a woman's obsession with her murdered father and her quest for retribution presents its characters not as mythical heroes, but as flawed human beings.
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Euripides is considered to be the most socially critical of all the ancient Greek tragedians.
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This does not necessarily mean that Euripides was an initiate of Dionysian mysteries, or that his portrayal of the god's worshippers (the Maenads) is an honest one.
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It is part of the human activity of storytelling to retell, misremember, breakup and tell backwards, peek into the crannies and tell the other stories (thank you Euripides), wonder what might have been, what could be, and tell the same stories over and over, but tell them slant.
Fan the Flames
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He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides
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Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. Euripides
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Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it.
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The most notable of the playwrights are Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.
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Youth holds no society with grief. Euripides
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The word parrhesia, however, is to be found neither in Pindar, nor in Aeschylus and Sophocles, and first appears in Euripides 'Hippolytus (line 422; performed in 428 B.C.) and Ion (lines 672, 675; of uncertain date).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. Euripides
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With reference to Kālidāsa, he holds a position such as Aeschylus holds with reference to Euripides.
The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides
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New Haven was a feast of fat things—now the young wife in "La Ronde," now the bawd in "Pericles," now a play by Euripides, now by Strindberg, now the leading lady, now the ingénue.
The Independent-Film Character
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The Bacchae, a play by the Greek tragedian Euripides , shows a dramatic view of the confrontation between instincts and institutions.
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The abode of the ascetics is depicted with a pathetic grace that we only find paralleled in the "Admetus" of Euripides.
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala
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Youth holds no society with grief. Euripides
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides
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The staggering fact is that for centuries the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides went virtually unperformed on the British stage.
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The idea is not of much help in reading Aeschylus and of intermittent usefulness in Euripides.
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides
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As to a play I love that was written before I was born, I think "Bacchae" by Euripides fills the bill.
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides
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The life, therefore, and spirit of all our actions is the resurrection, and a stable apprehension that our ashes shall enjoy the fruit of our pious endeavours; without this, all religion is a fallacy, and those impieties of Lucian, Euripides, and Julian, are no blasphemies, but subtile verities; and atheists have been the only philosophers.
Religio Medici
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In the years thereafter, Aeschylus found his muse and became one of the three celebrated 5th-century-BC Athenian tragedians, alongside Sophocles and Euripides.
