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A war within a marriage is also the subject of Euripides's story about the much-vilified Medea who is abandoned by her husband, Jason, for a new model.
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The Greek people and democracy have become sacrificial victims similar to Euripides's heroine in Iphigenia in Aulis.
Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism | Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou 2011
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Dominic Treadwell-Collins, series story producer, told Haynes that the only Greek myth the scriptwriters haven't used is Euripides's Medea – not that they haven't tried.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Using poet Anne Carson 's translation of Euripides's "Alcestis," the troupe re-invents the Greek classic, first performed in 438 B.C., with its characteristic integration of video, movement, music and text.
Big Birthday for Big Dance Lizzie Simon 2011
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The Greek people and democracy have become sacrificial victims similar to Euripides's heroine in Iphigenia in Aulis.
Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism | Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou 2011
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Described by its creators as "The Vicar Of Dibley meets The Wicker Man" this show, which will tour village halls across Wales, is inspired by Euripides's The Bacchae and tells of a genteel parish fundraising effort that soon descends into madness and debauchery.
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Euripides's exploration of the nature of human existence intertwines man with god, male with female, animal with human, sanity with madness.
The Bacchae by Euripides – review Clare Brennan 2010
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Or take Euripides's The Trojan Women, a "what happened next" continuation that deals with the horrific fate of the female members of Ilium's royal family after the city's overthrow.
The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians 2010
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The god Apollo brings Euripides's play — and this whole modern show — to an end, just as he did for Aeschylus, this time not by a cliff-hanger casting vote in a courtroom but by forcing Orestes to marry his kidnapped cousin.
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Euripides's play survives only in fragments - which are gathered in a new Loeb edition which also includes lost chunks of his Oedipus and Telephus.
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