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| Title | : | Hipólito |
| Author | : | Euripides |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 70 pages |
| Published | : | 2006 by Epubr (first published -428) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Classics. Drama. Fiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Theatre. Tragedy |
Euripides
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Na leitura de 'Hipólito', o leitor moderno talvez se surpreenda com o que lhe parecerá ser uma inversão de valores: uma deusa castigar duramente um jovem que delibera e age dentro da mais estrita correção! No entanto, sob a perspectiva da religiosidade grega, a altivez do jovem é também sua fonte de hýbris, isto é, de descomedimento, pois ao reverenciar apenas Ártemis, a deusa da vida selvagem, e se recusar a cultuar Afrodite, a deusa do amor, Hipólito desconsidera o princípio básico da piedade grega, que é o de prestar honras a todos os deuses.List Books Conducive To Hipólito
| Original Title: | Ιππόλυτος |
| Edition Language: | Portuguese |
| Characters: | Artemis (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Hippolytus, Phaedra, Aphrodite |
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I had to read it for my Greek Tragedies class. The character of the Nurse is pretty cool.Hippolytus By Euripides First presented in 428 BCI have reread this tragedy shortly after I had read the play of Phaedra by Racine.Euripides work is an extremely beautiful reading pleasure and provides a very colorfully painted picture of events. Especially the chorus and coryphe give the reader a feeling of participation. The distribution of the drama is quite different from Racines play.The actors are Theseus, the great Athenian hero, Phaedra his second wife, Hippolytus, her stepson, son of
Hippolytus was assigned reading for freshman Humanities at Grinnell College. Having already read Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aritotle's essay on the character of tragedy, I was not much impressed. Euripides read like the script of soap opera. Too much hinged on divine interference and over-scrupulous moralism. By the latter I mean people keeping their oaths when breaking them might have prevented disaster--a moral dilemma to be sure, but one in which the disproportion is obvious. Our class spent
"Besides I knew too well I was a woman, and must be abhorred by all." Euripides never lets me down. The full title of the edition I read is "Hippolytus in Drama and Myth." It's translated by Donald Sutherland and includes an essay by Hazel E. Barnes. The base myth of the eponymous Hippolytus portrays him as a shining exemplar of virtuousness and chastity, a kind of saint. The story goes like this: his stepmother Phaedra falls in love with him but he rejects her advances, and in revenge, she
A beautiful play with a simple plot but too many meanings & intertwined themes! It is a play about human emotions & feelings (e.g. jealousy, passion, anger, shame) and characteristics (e.g. impulsiveness), as well as it is a play about the human condition (subject to the will of deity). Moreover, it is about relationships, the relationship between people, between man and gods, and the relationships between the gods themselves. Human are subject to gods rules, decisions, and orders, and
Oh, Euripides. You're so good at making totally crazy characters. For this story though, it's the Nurse. Her advice is not advisable...poor Hipploytus. I enjoyed this tragedy probably moreso because of reading Medea. I keep noticing things that feel similar like the rebuking of women's lust, the self-harming acts of spite, the roles of family being corrrupted (mother's relationship to their children), and the way that love can destroy people. Medea follows Jason and leaves everything because
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