Euripides, Andromache 655–656

Euripides' Second Thoughts

A Literary Study of Euripides’ Phoinissai

The Crete and Cretans of Euripides: Perceptions and Representations

7 1.1 THE CRETE OF EURIPIDES: An Overview 10 1.2 The Research Questions 11 1.3 Methodology 11 1.4 Commentaries and Translations 13 1.5 Euripides and the dramatic treatment of Crete as an island 14 1.6 The cycle of Cretan myths 15 1.7 Treatment of mythological characters and themes 23 1.8 Crete’s ‘Darker Aspects’ 27 1.9 Formulations of identity 28 1.10 Insularity 31 1.11 Interconnectivity 35 1.1...

The Limits of Dionysiac Liberation in Euripides' Bacchae

Scholars have frequently observed that Dionysus is a god who breaks down barriers (of gender, class, social norms, et cetera). This is true in Euripides's Bacchae to a certain extent, and the play's breakdown of the divide between male/female and Greek/foreign has been well examined in scholarship. However, the limitations of this questioning of boundaries are much less discussed. For instance,...

How to make a goddess angry: making sense of the Demeter Ode in Euripides’ Helen

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