I had previously read and loved Electra and The Bacchae and finally decided to get to The Phoenician Women. It wasn't as good, but it did make me want to revive the ancient tradition of women gathering in a mob to voice their opinions. March on Washington, anyone?

The Bacchae (July 4, 2012)

Explains so much

(This is a review of the Bacchae only)
Oh, Bacchae, how I love your gory disgusting ending. :) It is extraordinarily unfair for everyone except possibly Pentheus, but what a gloriously unfair ending it is!
Everyone should read Ancient Greek plays. Don't be hatin'! Just make sure you don't get a lame-ass translation. :)

Mentioned in the orphan keeper by camron wright

See Aristotle’s Poetics for why this book sucks.

I really liked Euripides. It was interesting to read his Electra especially, which is a pretty different version than Sophocles' Electra. Euripides is much darker and more brutal in some ways than Sophocles--both rely on humankind's fatedness as the source of tragedy, but Euripides' plays show much more existential angst.

Odd to be consistently surprised by a writer from ~450 BC, but Euripides can do it. Finding that Electra is set in a rural farmhouse, with both Clytemnestra and Aegisthus's murders awkward and half-failed, was a real surprise. Phoenician Women is a real mess, but obviously Bacchae is one of the strangest and greatest plays of all time. And more importantly than reviewing the plays - I really like these editions, though my cover looks a bit different and credits the series of books to Grene and Lattimore. They're probably my favorite for a first readthrough of a Greek tragedy.

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შურისძიება მწვანე თავლება მონსტრიაო. მამის დაკარგვით გამოწვეულმა ტკივილმა დააბრმავა და-ძმის გონება და საკუთარი დედა მოკლეს შესაწირი ბატკნის მსგავსად. სულის შემძვრელი ტრაგედიაა ნამდვილად, ერთი ამოსუნთქვით წასაკითხი თუმცა ბევრ საკითხზე დამაფიქრებელი.

tsh makes so much more sense now anyway why doesn’t everyone listen to advice??

read for school

Only read The Bacchae for Seminar, but looking forward to readding the rest over the summer