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Euripides

-480–-406

5 fiction

Euripides was an Athenian tragedian whose plays often examine war, gender, outsiders and the instability of heroic values.

Euripides wrote tragedies including Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women and Electra. His plays frequently give forceful voices to women, foreigners, captives and people damaged by war or religious certainty.

He is useful for Classical pages dealing with Greek tragedy, the Trojan War tradition, Dionysiac religion and the social pressures of late fifth-century Athens. His work is also important for modern retellings that foreground women and defeated communities.

Periods and events

Athenian Tragedy and the City Dionysia5th century BCE Greek Mythology and Heroic LegendMythic and archaic tradition Peloponnesian War431–404 BCE Trojan War Epic TraditionMythic Bronze Age tradition

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Penguin Classics: Ancient World in Order

by various authors 32 books showing 4 books here 4.6(13,212)

Penguin Classics: Ancient World brings together foundational works of literature, history, philosophy, drama and poetry from the earliest civilisations through classical Greece and Rome. The wider Penguin Classics series began in 1946 with E. V. Rieu’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, reflecting its original aim of making important texts…

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