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 nimb...

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 nim...

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 is...

Iffy Iphigenia This Met Co-Production Is Rough but Ready for New York It's unclear why Christoph Willibald Gluck-and in particular, his Iphigenia in Tauris-is enjoying a renaissance lately. Perhaps his austere sound is refreshing to modern ears, overstuffed as they are with...

"I didn't want to write about the Greeks," complains playwright Caridad Svich. But after reading Iphigenia at Aulis for a workshop, Svich changed her mind. "I became angry with Euripides as a writer," she avows. "His Iphigenia didn't have a voice." [ILLUSTRATION...