Tragedies

The book presents the most famous works of the great ancient Greek playwright of Euripides - the largest (along with Aeschylus and Sophocle) representative of the classical Athenian tragedy, whose work anticipated the culture of not only the Hellenistic, but also more close cultural epochs. In ancient times, he was called the “philosopher on the stage” and “the tragic of the poets” (Aristotle), and in modern times - “The most romantic poet of Greece” (Belinsky) According to Sophocles, Euripides portrayed a man “not the way he should be, but what he really is”: the conflict in his plays is played not only between the characters, but also inside the hero’s consciousness, which gives his plays a psychological dimension, Detertain is unfamiliar to the ancient drama and in many ways consonant with the worldview of contemporaries of Shakespeare, Calderon, Cornel, Racine and other playwrights of the New Age.
In this publication, the tragedies “Medea”, “Hippolytus”, “Andromakh”, “Electra”, “Iphigenia in Tauris”, “Bacchanka”, “Iphigenia in Avlid” in the classic translations of I.F. Annensky are included in the present publication