Medea Revengers Tragedy

Feb 10, 2021

Euripides’ Revenger’s Tragedy, # Euripides 480 - 406 BCE # “No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.” “Euripides was the third tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. More of his plays (18) have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together. (7 each) The most technically innovative and iconoclastic of the three great tragedians, Euripides, considered by Aristotle to be the “most tragic” playwright, was famous above all for his penchant for depicting heroines struggling to break out of the roles assigned to them by society. ...