Euripides

The last of Athens' three great tragedians, the skeptic who let women, slaves, and gods' victims speak.

Specifications & Metrics

era

c. 480 – 406 BC

language

Ancient Greek

region

Athens

notable works

Medea, The Bacchae, Hippolytus, Trojan Women

plays count

19

Core Principles & Analysis

• He wrote around ninety plays; about nineteen survive complete.
• Contemporaries found him unsettling — he won fewer festival victories than Sophocles.
• The Bacchae, staged after his death, remains his uncanniest piece.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Euripides