Euripides

Medea of Euripides is an ancient Greek tragedy play written by Euripides, grounded upon the legend of two characters Medea and Jason. Euripides wrote Medea of Euripides in 431 BC at a time in Greece, when males were governing, and women had limited rights. Medea, the protagonist, was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, she was driven by passion and committed horrendous crimes for the love of Jason. In the opening act, Medea is standing outside of Jason house in Corinth as she explicates to the Chores

In Ion Euripides describes a realistic plot that matches nowadays events as well. He focuses on the vicissitudes of human life that lead the characters to the brink of ruin, and that raise on top of happiness at the same time. The life full of ups and downs is depicted in the example of Creusa’s life story. In Ion there are scenes that are composed of big fear, sincere repentance, strong jealousy, and pure love of Creusa. When young and innocent Creusa has been deceived by Apollo, she has to leave

Euripides’ Bacchants, is a play about the god Dionysus wanting to diffuse his religion all throughout Greece, especially to those who doubted that he was the son of Zeus. His religion consists of both male and female followers performing dances and chants, while drinking wine, and sacrificing an animal. During the play there is constant mockery and disapproval of the way Dionysus’ religion was looked at by the people of Thebes, compared to ancient Greece’s morals and what the people thought was right

Evaluation of Euripides Euripides has met the conventions of Attic Tragedy up to a particular extent. Although he was often criticised for his work, he followed the structure and cycles of the traditional tragedy. However, his stance on the themes and ideas set him apart from the other writers. It is unreasonable to compare Euripides with the traditional writers of Attic tragedy without understanding

In The Bacchae by Euripides, there are many themes throughout the play that have a major influence on the play, but the most influential include duality and the balance between control and freedom. To begin, the idea of duality has a significant impact on the overall perception of Dionysus. The play contains many individual moments in which opposition can be seen. These oppositions can generally be divided into three main categories. First, Euripides establishes a number of pairings between and even

As with much of classical literature, the Ancient Greek tragedy Electra by Euripides presents a dilemma to the audience. In this play, the dilemma is exclusive to the audience; although it is presented to the characters in the play, these characters do not hesitate with their plans. This age-old dilemma of kill or no kill is represented in Electra, giving the audience a choice to either sympathize with the victim, Clytemnestra, or the main character, Electra. In Electra, Orestes and Electra, the

The Life of Euripides Euripides was one of the three great tragedians. The other two were Aeschylus, and Sophocles. According to the Encyclopedia, “Euripides 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”). He is well- known for transforming traditional Greek tragedies by using strong female characters and brilliant slaves. From the ninety- two plays Euripides wrote, only

The world of Euripides' tragedies was one that espoused ancient ideas of religion. The belief in ancient legends that formed subject material for the tragic drama had passed. The crowd that attended the theater at this time did so as a sort of religious celebration. It was under these circumstances that Euripides had to bury what might have been his true beliefs, and instead replace them with ideas that would relate to his audience. This did not mean that Euripides had to forgo his beliefs entirely

Hunter Estes 8/14/15 Euripides Euripides is known as one of only three Greek playwrights specializing in tragedy, whose works survived until present day. He is traditionally credited with writing 72 works, but only 19 surviving complete plays have attributed to him. Euripides, like his contemporary, Sophocles, pioneered what are now common literary ideas and devices. Euripides is credited with being the first writer to portray powerful heroes as mere ordinary people, put into situations of extraordinary

Euripides’ Medea is considered, according to Aristotle’s Poetics, a tragedy. The play centers on Medea, an outsider and wife to Jason, who seeks to punish Jason for taking another wife. The play is considered a tragedy because it contains the three unities as well as the six elements of drama mentioned by Aristotle. Despite the fact that the does the play fits the criteria of what Aristotle considers tragedy, however, Medea is actually not a tragedy but tells the story about a successful revenge