Euripides Summary

Biography EssayOf 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).... Read more

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... Read more

In the essay that follows, Jebb explores the political context within which Euripides wrote and the social commentary and philosophical views expressed in his plays. The victory at Salamis, in whic... Read more

In the following essay, Sheppard discusses how Euripides expressed his philosophical and religious ideas in his plays and how they were received by his contemporaries. The Athens of Pericles was th... Read more

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 attitud... Read more

In the essay that follows, Whitman describes Euripides's ironic use of myth. Many a green isle needs must be In the deep, wide sea of misery. Amid his despair at post-Napoleonic Europe, S... Read more

In the following excerpt, Knox describes Euripides's dramas as prophetic pictures of a changing Greek society. He was a many-sided poet; even in the fraction of his work that has come down t... Read more