Ion: A Play After Euripides

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Black Swan Books, 1986 - Drama - 148 pages
Ancient Greek play from circa 414-412 BC about the orphan, Ion, in his search for his origins.

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Contents

Photograph of H D c 1920s frontispiece
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Dawn Drove the Stars Back
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NOTE ON THE TEXT
131
Copyright

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abstract altar Antistrophe Apollo Athenian basket beauty bird birth BLACK SWAN BOOKS Bryher child childless Choros Dæmon death Delphi divinity earth earth-born Erechtheum Erekhtheus Euripides evil eyes fate father gift god's goddess gods gold Greece hail hands heart Hedylus Helios Hermes Hippolytus Temporizes holy honour human husband imagine inner intellect Iolaus Ion Kreousa Ion Ion Pythia Ion Ion Xouthos Ion's Ionian king Kreousa Ion Kreousa Kreousa Old laurel laurel-branch light look lost Loxias luminous lyric marble marble point mood Old Man Kreousa olive-tree oracle Pallas Athené Parnassus Phoibos phorminx pillars play poet priestess prologue Pythia Ion Pythia queen of Athens rhythm robes rock sacred servant silver slay soul speak spirit stands stars steps stone Strophe temple thing translation tripod Trophonius Virgin voice W. B. YEATS weep whole wings woman women words worship young priest youth Zeus

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About the author (1986)

Euripides was born in Attica, Greece probably in 480 B.C. He was the youngest of the three principal fifth-century tragic poets. In his youth he cultivated gymnastic pursuits and studied philosophy and rhetoric. Soon after he received recognition for a play that he had written, Euripides left Athens for the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia. Fragments of about fifty-five plays survive. Among his best-known plays are Alcestis, Medea and Philoctetes, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Trojan Women, and Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia. He died in Athens in 406 B.C.

Bibliographic information

TitleIon: A Play After Euripides
Black Swan Books literary series
Imagist Series
Literary series
AuthorsEuripides, Hilda Doolittle
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherBlack Swan Books, 1986
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized15 Apr 2008
ISBN0933806248, 9780933806245
Length148 pages
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