Historical person
Euripides
c. 480s BCE–c. 400s BCE
Euripides was an Athenian tragedian of the fifth century BC. His plays often revisit heroic myths from the perspective of women, captives, foreigners and defeated communities, reflecting the moral and political strains of wartime Athens.
In Euripides’s Electra and Other Plays,
This Euripides collection uses familiar heroic houses to examine vengeance, grief, divine pressure and public judgement. In Euripides’s Medea and Other Plays, this Euripides collection presents tragedy at its most psychologically and socially disruptive. Other novels featuring Euripides include Euripides’s The Bacchae and Other Plays.
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Historical periods linked to Euripides
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