Description: Euripides :Medea Hippolytus The Bacchae Translated by Philip Vellacott. Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1980. Full brown leather. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. The three stories by Euripides. Medea - 'Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned' basically sums up the premise here. Medea accomplishes great horrors and moves away from her family in order to be with her husband, Jason, who leaves her for a princess in order to (as he explains) provide a better life for their children. Medea is banished from her homeland but convinces the King (preying on his weak humanity) to let her stay one day in her current house to plan her move. She plans the move, but also a revenge plot in which she kills the princess, the King and eventually murders her own sons. Hippolytus - While Medea is a story of revenge by two mortals, Hippolytus and The Bacchae are stories about revenge between Gods and men. Hippolytus, son of King Thesus, has shunned the Goddess Aphrodite. He refuses to fall in love and is quite contented with living a life of gymnastics (sport) and praises Artemis, the Goddess of chastity and wildlands. What makes Hippolytus such a tragic character, is that he shuns love but is eventually destroyed by it anyway. The Baccae - The story is about the revenge of Dionysis, Greek God of wine and mirth, on Pentheus - a man who refuses to pay the god libations. Dionysis has a spell under all the women of the area, who live naked in the forest. He put Pentheus under a spell, and he dresses up as a woman to go talk to his mother in the forest. The women spot him and his mother rips off his head and the women tear off his limbs (literally). Some light cover soil. Old owner’s bookplate. Otherwise very clean and tight. Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.
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