Encyclopedia - Euripides: Encyclopedia - Euripides
Euripides (c. 480 BCE) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is believed to h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Euripides - His Plays
Euripides first competed in the famous Athenian dramatic festival (the Dionysia) in 455 BCE, one year after the death of Aeschylus. He ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Euripides - Life
According to legend Euripides was born in Salamís on September 23 (480 BCE); the day of the Persian War's greatest naval battle. His mot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Euripides - Works
Euripides - Tragedies of Euripides. Alcestis (438 BCE, second prize) Medea (431 BCE, third prize) Heracleidae (c. 430 BCE) Hippolytus ...   » Read the article

Article - Inspirational Quotes: There Is In The Worst Of Fortune The Best Of Chances For A Happy Change.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.   - Euripides   (See also: Inspirational Quotes, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hippolytus: Encyclopedia - Hippolytus
Hippolytus. In Greek mythology, Hippolytus was a son of Theseus and either Antiope or Hippolyte. Hippolytus is the title of a tragedy b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Electra Euripides - Characters And Setting
Characters include: Electra Orestes Clytemnestra Pylades (silent) Castor Polydeuces (silent) a peasant, Electra's husband servants a cho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Electra Euripides - The Set-up
Years before, near the start of the Trojan War, the Greek general Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia in order to appease the go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aeschylus: Encyclopedia - Aeschylus
Aeschylus (525 BC—456 BC; Greek: Αἰσχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greates...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agathon: Encyclopedia - Agathon
Agathon (c. 448-400 BCE) was an Athenian tragic poet and friend of Euripides and Plato. He is best known from his mention by Aristophanes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andromache Play: Encyclopedia - Andromache Play
Andromache (c. 425 BC) is a play by Euripides. It follows Andromache during her life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argea: Encyclopedia - Argea
In Greek mythology, Argea (or Argeia) was a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos. She was married to Polynices, the exiled king of Thebes. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenocles: Encyclopedia - Xenocles
Xenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian. Aristophanes calls him an execrable poet and was never tired of ridiculing him; describing, alon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xuthus: Encyclopedia - Xuthus
In Greek mythology, Xuthus (Classical Greek Ξοῦθος) was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chalandri: Encyclopedia - Chalandri
Chalandri, Halandri or sometimes Khalandri (Greek, Modern: Χαλάνδρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: Χαλάνδριον), older forms, C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcestis: Encyclopedia - Alcestis
A princess in Greek mythology, Alcestis ("might of the home") was known for her love for her husband. Their story was popularised in Euri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcestis Play: Encyclopedia - Alcestis Play
Alcestis is one of the earliest surviving works of the Greek playwright Euripides. The play was probably first produced at the Dionysia i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agave Mythology: Encyclopedia - Agave Mythology
Agave ("illustrious") was the queen of Thebes in Greek mythology, mother of Pentheus and daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus. She was a Maena...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyclops Play: Encyclopedia - Cyclops Play
The Cyclops is an Ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, the only complete satyr play that has survived. It is a comical burlesque-like p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belus Egyptian: Encyclopedia - Belus Egyptian
Belus (Greek Belos) the Egyptian is in Greek Mythology a son of Poseidon by Libya. He was a King of Egypt and father of Aegyptus and Dana...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 408 Bc: Encyclopedia - 408 Bc
Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC 380s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playwright: Encyclopedia Ii - Playwright - History
The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are Ancient Greeks with some of the earliest plays being written arou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belus Egyptian: Encyclopedia Ii - Belus Egyptian - More Genealogical Information
Apollodorus (2.1.4) claims that Aegyptus and Danaus were twins and that their mother was Anchinoe (otherwise unknown) and that she was da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tragedy - Renaissance And 17th Century Tragedy
The classical tradition of Greek and Roman tragedy was largely forgotten in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the beginning of 16th ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orestes Play: Encyclopedia Ii - Orestes Play - Plot Summary
The play begins with a soliloquy that outlines the basic plot and events that have led up to this point from Electra, who stands next to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verse Drama And Dramatic Verse: Encyclopedia Ii - Verse Drama And Dramatic Verse - Dramatic Verse
Dramatic verse occurs in a dramatic work, such as a play, composed in poetic form. The tradition of dramatic verse extends at least as fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysia: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysia - Notable Winners Of The City Dionysia
Dionysia - Tragedy. 484 BC - Aeschylus 472 BC - Aeschylus (The Persians) 471 BC - Polyphrasmon 468 BC - Sophocles (Triptolemus) 467 BC...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Trojan Women: Encyclopedia Ii - The Trojan Women - Plot
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Frogs: Encyclopedia Ii - The Frogs - The Plot
The Frogs tells the story of how the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring Euripides bac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pierre Prévost: Encyclopedia Ii - Pierre Prévost - Life
Son of a protestant clergyman in Geneva, he was born in that city, and was educated for a clerical career. However, he abandoned it for l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles - Achilles In The Trojan War
Achilles - Telephus. When the Greeks left for the Trojan War, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King Telephus. In the battle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigeneia: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigeneia - Some Modern Sources
BONNARD, A. Iphigénie à Aulis. Tragique et Poesie. Museum Helveticum, Basel, v. 2, p. 87-107, 1945. CROISILLE, J.-M. Le sacrifice d’I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Theater: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Theater - Western Theatre History
History of theater - Ancient Greek theatre. Main article: Ancient Greek theatre The earliest days of western theater remain obscure, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Theater: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Theater - Western Theatre History
History of theater - Ancient Greek theatre. Main article: Ancient Greek theatre The earliest days of western theater remain obscure, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxyrhynchus: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxyrhynchus - Finds
Although the hope of finding all the lost literary works of antiquity at Oxyrhynchus was not realised, many important Greek texts were fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helios: Encyclopedia Ii - Helios - Helios And Apollo
Apollo as he appears in Homer, a plague-dealing god with a silver (not golden) bow has no solar features. But by Hellenistic times Apollo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tragedy - Greek Tragedy
Greek literature boasts three great writers of tragedy whose works are extant: Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The largest festival f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Adriatic Sea - Name And Etymology
The name has existed since the antiquity; in Latin it was Mare Hadriaticum. In modern languages, it is Mare Adriatico in Italian, Deti Ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Theatre - Characteristics
Ancient Greek theatre - Writing. Tragedy and comedy were viewed as completely separate genres, and no plays ever merged aspects of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea Play: Encyclopedia Ii - Medea Play - Reaction
Although the play is considered one of the great plays of the Western canon, the Athenian audience did not react so favourably, and award...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helios: Encyclopedia Ii - Helios - Helios And Apollo
Apollo as he appears in Homer, a plague-dealing god with a silver (not golden) bow has no solar features. But by Hellenistic times Apollo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Curriculum Details
St. John's College U. S. - The Great Books. The same set of Great Books is the basis of the curriculum at both campuses of St. John's C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greeks: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Greeks - Writers
List of Greeks - Writers. List of Greeks - Ancient period. Aeschylus, (525-456 BC), dramatist. Aesop, (c. 620-560 BC), writer of Fable...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greeks: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Greeks - Writers
List of Greeks - Ancient period. Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), dramatist. Aesop (c.620–560 BCE), writer of fables Antimachus (c.400 BCE...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - Jason - Argonauts In Classical Literature
Though some of the episodes of Jason's story draw on ancient material, the definitive telling, on which this account relies, is that of A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology
Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia - Dionysus
Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysia: Encyclopedia - Dionysia
The Dionysia was a large religious festival in ancient Athens in honour of the god Dionysus, the central event of which was the performan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia - Helen
Helen (Ἑλένη) was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odyssey: Encyclopedia - Odyssey
The Odyssey (Greek Οδύσσεια) is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first of which is the Iliad. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphor: Encyclopedia - Metaphor
In language, a metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin) is a rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two seemingly unrelated...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hunting: Encyclopedia - Hunting
Hunting is the practice of humans pursuing animals to capture or kill them for food, sport, or trade in their products. The modern term r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cybele: Encyclopedia - Cybele
Originally a Phrygian goddess, Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη, sometimes given the etymology "she of the hair" if her name is Greek, not Phry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pentagram: Encyclopedia - Pentagram
A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. In fact, the word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντάγρ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyclops: Encyclopedia - Cyclops
A Cyclops, or Kyklops, is a member of the Greco-mythical race of giants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead. The word is fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 408 Bc: Encyclopedia - 408 Bc
Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC 380s BC ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Euripides (sd): Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Euripides (sd)
Euripides (SD)   (See also: Euripides (SD) , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 406 Bc: Encyclopedia - 406 Bc
Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC 380s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 480 Bc: Encyclopedia - 480 Bc
King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece. Cimon and his friends burn horse-bridles as an offering to Athena and join the mari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anaxagoras: Encyclopedia - Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (c. 500 BCE–428 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who was likely born about 500 BCE (Apollodorus ap. Diog. Laert. ii...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 5th Century Bc: Encyclopedia - 5th Century Bc
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) 5th century BC - Overview. The 5th and 6th centuries BC are a period of philo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perseus: Encyclopedia - Perseus
Perseus, or Perseos (Greek: Περσεύς, Περσέως), was the son of Danae, and the only grandchild of Acrisius king of Argos. He ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oedipus: Encyclopedia - Oedipus
Oedipus (Greek Οἰδίπους, Oidipous, "swollen-foot"; rarely Οἰδίπος; Latin Oedipus) or Œdipus was the mythical king of Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibyl: Encyclopedia - Sibyl
The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. The earlier oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Okhema, Ochema: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Okhema, Ochema
Okhema ochema (Greek) [from echeo to carry]   A vehicle, both as a wagon and figuratively as the support or carrier of anything. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ipotane: Encyclopedia - Ipotane
In Greek mythology, Ipotanes were a race of half-horse, half-humans, unlike the satyrs, who were half-goat. The typical Ipotane looked ov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taphians: Encyclopedia - Taphians
In Homeric Greece the islands of Taphos lay in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania in northwestern Greece, home of sea-going and pi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stobaeus: Encyclopedia - Stobaeus
Joannes Stobaeus, so called from his native place Stobi in Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek author...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trophonius: Encyclopedia - Trophonius
Trophonius (the Latinate spelling) or Trophonios (in the transliterated Greek spelling) was a Greek hero or daimon or god - it was never ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satyr: Encyclopedia - Satyr
In Greek mythology, Satyrs (Greek: Σάτυροι, Sáturoi) are mythological half-man and half-goat nature entities that roamed the wood...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quotation: Encyclopedia - Quotation
A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that has been inserted into another human expression. It is most often a written or oral ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helios: Encyclopedia - Helios
In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Hêlios (Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun tita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Epictetus: Encyclopedia - Epictetus
Epictetus (c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born at Hierapolis, Phrygia, and lived most of his life in Rome u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra: Encyclopedia - Electra
In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra): Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Dardanus, Iasio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dodona: Encyclopedia - Dodona
At Dodona (ancient Greek: Δοδώνη, modern Dodoni) in Epirus, northwestern Greece, was a prehistoric oracle devoted to the Greek god,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy: Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy
The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, 1872) is a 19th Century work of philosophy by Friedrich Nietzsch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ganymede: Encyclopedia - Ganymede
In Greek mythology, Ganymede (Greek: Γανυμήδης, Ganumêdês) was a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. As a beautiful Troj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gorgon: Encyclopedia - Gorgon
In Greek mythology, the Gorgons ("terrible" or, according to some, "loud-roaring") were vicious female monsters with sharp fangs and hair...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia - Medea
In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (now a territory of modern Georgia), niece of Circe, and later wife ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cassandra: Encyclopedia - Cassandra
In Greek mythology, Cassandra ("she who entangles men") (also known as Alexandra) was a daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menander: Encyclopedia - Menander
Menander (342–291 BC), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. He was the son of well-to-do pa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anaxagoras: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (Ancient Greek) A famous Ionian philosopher who lived 500 B.C., studied philosophy under Anaximenes of Miletus, and settled...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Erinyes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Erinyes
Erinyes (Greek) (cf Latin Furae furies)   Also Dirae. Furies, avenging goddesses; sometimes legion, sometimes three in number, ac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osiris: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Osiris
Osiris. (Egypt, Egyptian). The greatest God of Egypt, the Son of Seb (Saturn), celestial fire, and of Neith, primordial matter and inf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphor: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphor - Aspects Of Metaphor
Metaphor - Scope and definition. A metaphor is, commonly, a figure of speech used to paint one concept with the attributes normally ass...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odyssey: Encyclopedia Ii - Odyssey - Plot Summary
Odyssey - Book 1. "Tell me, oh muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy." Wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Worship
Dionysus is a god of mystery religious rites, such as those practiced in honor of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens. In the T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia Ii - Medea - Medea In Music
Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea. D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphor: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphor - Metaphors In Literature And Language
Metaphor is present in written language back to the earliest surviving writings. From the Epic of Gilgamesh (one of the oldest Sumerian t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphor: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphor - Metaphors In Cognitive Linguistics
Metaphor - Conceptual metaphor. Conceptual metaphors are a subject within cognitive linguistics. In cognitive linguistics, a metaphor i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pentagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Pentagram - Geometry
A regular pentagram is the {5/2} star polygon. It is most easily drawn by drawing a regular pentagon, joining the corners with lines and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odyssey: Encyclopedia Ii - Odyssey - Geography In The Odyssey
The text of the Odyssey does not contain many modern place names that can immediately be located on a map. Scholars both ancient and mode...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphor: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphor - Metaphors In Cognitive Linguistics
Metaphor - Conceptual metaphor. Main article: conceptual metaphor Conceptual metaphors are a subject within cognitive linguistics. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Dionysus In Neopaganism
Modern Neopagans view Dionysus in different lights, depending largely on the individual sects and the other gods worshipped by a sect. Di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Childhood
The legend goes that Zeus took the infant Dionysus and gave him in charge to the rain-nymphs of Nysa, who nourished his infancy and child...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Midas
Once, Dionysus found his old school master and foster father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and had wandered away drun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Other Stories
When Hephaestus bound Hera to a magical chair, Dionysus got him drunk and brought him back to Olympus after he had passed out. For this a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between the legends of Diony...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Modern Interpretations
In his book The Birth of Tragedy, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contrasted Dionysus with the god Apollo as a symbol of the b...   » Read the article