LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brian vinero

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  • Orestes
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    After avenging his father Agamemnon’s death by slaughtering his mother Clytemnestra, Orestes finds himself tormented by The Furies and pursued by the Argive people who seek to put him to death along with his sister Electra. Seemingly ignored by the god Apollo whose oracle led Orestes to matricide; his only hope lies with his father’s brother Menelaus who is recently reunited wi...
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    17,84 €

  • Cyclops
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    As Odysseus begins to journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, he and his companions are blown off course to the mysterious Mount Etna. There, they find a tribe of displaced satyrs who are enslaved by the violent and dangerous Cyclops. Odysseus will need the cunning and bravery that served him so effectively during the war to avoid being served himself to the hungry Cyc...
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    17,23 €

  • Andromache
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    In the aftermath of the Trojan War, the royal-born Andromache finds herself in far-off Greece enslaved by the family of the man who killed her husband and forced her into the role of concubine. She is not only forced to share her bed with her captor, Neoptolemus, but also bears him a son. This draws the ire of his wife, Hermione, who is convinced that Andromache’s presence and ...
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  • Alcestis
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    The God Apollo has tricked the Fates into sparing King Admetus when it is his time to die. Yet in exchange, Admetus has to find another mortal to take his place in the Underworld. After his aged parents refuse to step in to save him it is Admetus’ noble wife, Alcestis, who agrees to give her life, hoping to spare her children from growing up without a father. She dies leaving h...
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    17,63 €

  • Hippolytus
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    Hippolytus, the illegitimate son of King Theseus of Athens, has invoked the scorn of the goddess Aphrodite by vowing to live a life of chastity and refusing to revere her, while giving the goddess Artemis constant devotion. Aphrodite swears vengeance and plots to make Hippolytus’ young stepmother, Phaedra, fall madly in love with him, setting off a series of events that will pr...
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    17,72 €

  • Iphigenia at Tauris
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    Many years after the events that led to the destruction of Agamemnon’s family during the Trojan War, his daughter Iphigenia, long thought dead, lives among the Taurians as a priestess in the Temple of Artemis. Her duty to prepare any foreigner who arrives in Tauris for ritual sacrifice introduces her to a young Greek prisoner, who she will soon discover is none other than her l...
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    17,84 €

  • Iphigenia at Aulis
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    On the eve of the Trojan War, the Greek leader Agamemnon is at the port of Aulis and finds himself at odds with the goddess Artemis. She is holding back the wind that will allow his army to sail to Troy and demands the sacrifice of his beloved daughter, Iphigenia, to release it. As tensions mount, Agamemnon finds himself not only confronted by an impatient army but also by his ...
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    17,90 €

  • Ion
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    Queen Creusa of Athens has long harbored a dark secret: As a girl, she was sexually assaulted by the god Apollo, and the encounter left her pregnant. In desperation, she kept the pregnancy and birth of a son concealed and left him exposed and meant to die in the very cave where she was violated. Many years later, Creusa and her husband have traveled to Apollo’s temple at Delphi...
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    17,86 €

  • Hecuba
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    As the fires that burned Troy smolder, the once-proud and regal Queen Hecuba finds herself homeless, widowed, and enslaved by the Greek conquerors. In the hours before she is to sail to Greece in chains, she discovers that two of her surviving children will pay the blood debt of war with their lives. Left with nothing to lose but a hopeless life that is no longer her own, she c...
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    17,60 €

  • Electra
    Euripides / Brian Vinero
    Following his triumphs during the Trojan War, the great Greek warrior Agamemnon is slaughtered by his crafty wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus. Many years later, his surviving children, Orestes and Electra, live far from the royal halls that are rightfully theirs and have long been separated: Orestes has escaped and lives in exile, while Electra languishes in an arra...
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    17,69 €

  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    Edmond Rostand / Brian Vinero
    Rostand’s masterpiece in verse CYRANO DE BERGERAC has enchanted audiences worldwide since the play’s 1897 premiere in Paris. The iconic title role has inspired countless actors to light up stages large and small with wit, passion, and swashbuckling bravado. The play has seen thousands of productions in dozens of translations and adaptations and its plot has even found its way t...
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    21,69 €

  • The Last Night of Don Juan
    Edmond Rostand / Brian Vinero
    Don Juan’s sexual conquests have gained him an infamous reputation all over Europe. When the Devil himself begins to drag him to Hell, Don Juan makes a bargain: In exchange for another ten years of life, he will commit to doing the Devil’s dark work himself by bedding as many women as possible and leaving them wanting and devastated.A decade later, the Devil catches up with Don...
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    17,87 €