Buy new:
$12.33
FREE delivery: Thursday, April 25 on orders over $35.00 shipped by Amazon.
Ships from: Amazon.com
Sold by: Amazon.com
List Price: $14.00 Details

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Save: $1.67 (12%)
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Thursday, April 25 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Or fastest delivery Wednesday, April 24. Order within 15 hrs 16 mins
Only 17 left in stock (more on the way).
$$12.33 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$12.33
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime
FREE delivery Friday, April 26 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Or fastest delivery Wednesday, April 24. Order within 15 hrs 16 mins
Used: Good | Details
Sold by RNA TRADE LLC
Fulfilled by Amazon
Condition: Used: Good

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime.

If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Learn more about the program.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Euripides
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics) Paperback – January 1, 1999

by Euripides (Author), Richard Rutherford (Editor, Introduction), John Davie (Translator)
4.7 out of 5 stars 35
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$12.33","priceAmount":12.33,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"12","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"33","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"VIv4HThn0FVjJ4SzLRdax%2FGvmJwC86wtmRz%2FCVWtJKdi3u5BsxEr2HevrVR1FXYuUUwGlZ8MNnm%2FhQ4Y1%2BRjo6ecu72A5uNlcOMY9fmos87Uw%2Bua1E92fECcprso9WhSmiF3eqdpNVo%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$11.10","priceAmount":11.10,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"11","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"10","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"VIv4HThn0FVjJ4SzLRdax%2FGvmJwC86wtgSY0NuTJkefnkYDzzGWYPUTyCPIwLqSV87oceJrJgEcDy34nDOR6q7CVQ09Plq6DzOo6etcvMG%2Fp2gGB0wZ4ZS%2FwahRcgn2Ocw2%2FXmPrYDkMMHn2cRLZ0fVIlUz1GmfCdZ4LrJcr3rLjupugjmDgcOMHL57TPMFA","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors.

Written in the period from 426 to 415 BC, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens and Sparta, these five plays are haunted by the horrors of war – and its particular impact on women. Only the Suppliants, with its extended debate on democracy and monarchy, can be seen as a patriotic piece. The Trojan Women is perhaps the greatest of all anti-war dramas; Andromache shows the ferocious clash between the wife and concubine of Achilles’ son Neoptolemos; while Hecabe reveals how hatred can drive a victim to an appalling act of cruelty. Electra develops (and parodies) Aeschylus’ treatment of the same story, in which the heroine and her brother Orestes commit matricide to avenge their father Agamemnon. As always, Euripides presents the heroic figures of mythology as recognizable, often very fallible, human beings. Some of his greatest achievements appear in this volume.

Previous page
  1. Print length
    224 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Penguin Classics
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1999
  5. Dimensions
    5.1 x 0.57 x 7.8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    9780140446685
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0140446685
  8. See all details
Next page
Books with Buzz
Books with Buzz
Discover the latest buzz-worthy books, from mysteries and romance to humor and nonfiction. Explore more

Frequently bought together

Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics)
$12.33
Get it as soon as Thursday, Apr 25
Only 17 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
$12.65
Get it as soon as Thursday, Apr 25
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
$11.69
Get it as soon as Thursday, Apr 25
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Details
Added to Cart
Some of these items ship sooner than the others.
Show details Hide details
Choose items to buy together.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Euripides, the youngest of the three great Athenian playwrights, was born around 485 BC of a family of good standing. He first competed in the dramatic festivals in 455 BC, coming only third; his record of success in the tragic competitions is lower than that of either Aeschylus or Sophocles. There is a tradition that he was unpopular, even a recluse; we are told that he composed poetry in a cave by the sea, near Salamis. What is clear from contemporary evidence, however, is that audiences were fascinated by his innovative and often disturbing dramas. His work was controversial already in his lifetime, and he himself was regarded as a ‘clever’ poet, associated with philosophers and other intellectuals. Towards the end of his life he went to live at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon. It was during his time there that he wrote what many consider his greates work, the Bacchae. When news of his death reached Athens in early 406 BC, Sophocles appeared publicly in mourning for him. Euripides is thought to have written about ninety-two plays, of which seventeen tragedies and one satyr-play known to be his survive; the other play which is attributed to him, the Rhesus, may in fact be by a later hand.

John Davie is head of classics at St. Paul's School in London.


Richard Rutherford is tutor in Greek and Latin literature at Christ Church, Oxford.


Richard Rutherford is tutor in Greek and Latin literature at Christ Church, Oxford.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0140446680
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics (January 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780140446685
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140446685
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.57 x 7.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 35

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Euripides

Euripides

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpᵻdiːz/ or /jɔːˈrɪpᵻdiːz/; Greek: Εὐριπίδης; Ancient Greek: [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]) (c. 480 – 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets",[nb 1] focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of...that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Customer reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars
4.7 out of 5
35 global ratings

Top review from the United States

elsie b
5.0 out of 5 stars shipped well and in good condition!
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2017
Verified Purchase
needed for school. shipped well and in good condition!
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

Lorraine Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to find and download
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2021
Verified Purchase
I used this book for zoom meeting plays
Report
Arthur
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in Australia on February 26, 2024
Verified Purchase
Book was throw into package without care, giant crease on the back. Do better.
Customer image
Arthur
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in Australia on February 26, 2024
Book was throw into package without care, giant crease on the back. Do better.
Images in this review
Customer image
Customer image
Report
Pete
5.0 out of 5 stars Electra and other plays
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2014
Verified Purchase
This book is part of my coursework for my Classics A- Levels, I chose it because the Penguin Version is always good, the language used is easy to read and understand, it arrived quickly and on time. I would recommend it to anyone studying Classics or an interest in Classics.
Report
Nod3397
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2017
Verified Purchase
Good
Report
Tracy Aitken
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2017
Verified Purchase
Marvellous.
Report