Talk:Euripides

message: This is an article on on a major literary figure and yet the highest number of edits by any one user to date is just 35. That's extraordinary and yet it is nothing unusual in the extraordinary WP universe, where life struggles like a weed to get a hold in the Stalinist architecture of committee-work. Any article produced by a committee tends to be a bit haphazard, even lifeless, I think, and hopefully somebody will take ownership of this one. I might put some roots down myself since I can see lots of cracks here. McZeus (talk) 01:21, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you smoking? Whatever it is, be bold, and edit. If you feel the article needs work, then get going! If you need any help or advice, give me a buzz. You think Euripides is bad? Try history of theatre. Or Theatre of ancient Greece for that matter! DionysosProteus (talk)
I'm getting into the mood. It's called method acting. As soon as I am Euripidesed enough, I'll do something worthy of the master. Till then, please don't interrupt. McZeus (talk) 01:17, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Euripides and life 

message: I'm going to paste here the section that seems to need the most work and I'll do the redrafting here, so that anyone can comment on the changes if they wish to. I'm not sure at the moment how long I am going to be working on this and that's another reason not to mess with the front page until I'm ready to replace it with the version here. I hope nobody will be inconvenienced. McZeus (talk) 04:52, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved your draft to a sub-page of the article, here and archived the talk on an archive page.  • DP •  {huh?} 06:27, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Edit 

message: I wanted to add some more material about the play 'Telephus' and maybe someone can help me with some images of Telephus, as suited to Euripides' play. Especially, I have seen some pictures of kraters showing Telephus, one as the beggar in disguize about to kill the child of Orestes, and another as Mnesilochus disguized as a woman acting like Telephus about to 'kill' a skin of wine that is disguized as a child, in Aristophanes' play Thesmophoriazusae (sounds almost as complicated as Dikaiopolis/Telephus/beggar/Aristophanes/Herodotus in The Acharnians). It all sounds a bit confusing, I know, but such things do happen in real life too. The kraters are:
*Apulian bell krater by the Schiller painter ca 370 BC, Martin von Wagner Museum
*Lucanian red-figure calyx-krater, Pelicoro painter ca 400 BC, The Cleveland Museum of Art.
If anyone can download those images, or images like them, that would be much appreciated. I found the pictures in A Companion to Greek Tragedy. ed. Justina Gregory (see references list in article), pages 111 and 113.
Thanks! McRap (talk) 11:55, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You might ask User talk:Athinaios, who's been doing an enormous amount of work on vase painting. Best wishes, Cynwolfe (talk) 15:41, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telephus - can I have some of his stuff please? 

message: There are other translations and English reconstructions of *Phaethon* circulating in manuscript besides the Vlanes one, but I do not have citations for them. I've added a citation to www.foame.org for the Vlanes reconstruction. Ptrourke (talk) 22:12, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phaethon 

message: This rating is wrong. This is the epitome of a encyclopedic article on a Greek tragedian. The articles on Aeschylus and Sophocles are quite inferior!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.228.223.37 (talk) 19:17, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  B level rating 

message: Is there a particular reason the play excerpts are translated into English rhyming meter? We are an encyclopedia—we ought to be using something more accurate and less stylized (and the same can be said for the names of the headings under his biography). 108.171.131.161 (talk) 15:04, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You can't use your own translation (see WP:OR). Paul August ☎ 14:28, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations of Excerpts 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion 

message: Under the section on Euripides's extant plays, shouldn't all his plays (other than Cyclops) be classed as tragedies? To note that some have elements of a satyr-play, for instance, is permissible, but, to the Athenians, the notion that a play put on in the Dionysia within the three days allowed for tragedies is not a tragedy would be absurd. See also William Allan's edition of Euripides's Helen for discussion of such matters, especially the claim that some of his plays are 'romantic' or 'tragicomic'. 131.111.5.184 (talk) 11:50, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorisations of plays