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)....
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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 s...
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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...
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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 which A...
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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 communicati...
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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 the p...
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In the following excerpt, Bates reviews the characteristics of Euripides's tragedies in terms of the biographical and social conditions that helped create them.
The Life of Euripides
In seeking...
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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...
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In this essay, Ferguson discusses the intellectual climate in Greece during Euripides's life and assesses the elements of his dramas.
In the early days of the Persian invasion, while the Sparta...
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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, Shelley...
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In the following essay, Walsh discusses the relationship between enchanting poetry and poetry of praise as they are defined, developed, and divided in Euripidean drama.
Poetry has two virtues accordin...
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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 to u...
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Euripides was one of the most famous of the three Greek dramatists alongside two others: Aeschylus and Sophocles. His works were reasonably popular and well-known during his life, but also still inspi...
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Euripides
Euripides
