Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the...

Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen, in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the...

Euripides (480-406 BC) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the Greek poets. He is certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times. Euripides was the son of Mnesarchus. The family owned property on the...

Director Tina Landau knows how to do bold.Her take on Charles Mee's "Iphigenia 2.0" is aggressive, in-your-face theatrical, a startling, ambitious re-examination of the Euripides classic done in modern dress and sporting an up-to-the-minute sensibility that suggests today's Iraq conflict as much as it does...

Charles Mee, one of the village elders of the New York avant-garde scene, is being honored by the Signature Theatre Company with his own season, a richly deserved accolade. The 68-year-old innovator joins an elite group of major American artists—like Edward Albee, Adrienne Kennedy, John...

Sections of an ancient Greek theater were discovered on Thursday during construction work in an Athens suburb, archaeologists said.Until now, only two such buildings were known in the ancient city where western theater originated more than 2,500 years ago.Fifteen rows of concentric stone seats have...

A new drama about the arms trade and an adaptation of a beloved war film are highlights of the coming season at Britain's National Theatre, artistic director Nicholas Hytner announced Thursday.Future productions include star turns for Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.Among the National's 2007-2008 shows...

In the following excerpt, Bates reviews the characteristics of Euripides's tragedies in terms of the biographical and social conditions that helped create them.

In the excerpt that follows, Foley contends that in his dramas Euripides uses ritual to bridge the gaps between public and private, past and present, divine and human, and myth and secular communication in "response to poetic, social, and intellectual tensions within Attic culture."

In the following essay, Rosenmeyer questions whether Bacchae and Ion are "religious tragedies in the proper sense of the word" and concludes that the plays express very different attitudes about the relationship between gods and men.

This is an essay on the life of Euripides and what he contributed to Greek as well as modern history.