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The Bacchae. Bellerophon (play) Children of Heracles. Cresphontes (play) Cyclops (play) Electra (Euripides play) Hecuba (play) Helen (play) Herakles (Euripides) Hippolytus (play) Hippolytus Veiled. Hypsipyle (play) Ion (play) Iphigenia in Aulis. Iphigenia in Tauris. Medea (play) Merope (Messenia) Oedipus (Euripides) Orestes (play) Peliades.
- Overview
- The plays of Euripides
- Alcestis
- Medea
- Children of Heracles
- Hippolytus
- Andromache
- Hecuba
- Suppliants
- Electra
The dates of production of nine of Euripides’ plays are known with some certainty from evidence that goes back to the official Athenian records. Those plays whose dates are prefixed by c. can be dated to within a few years by the internal evidence of Euripides’ changing metrical techniques.
The dates of production of nine of Euripides’ plays are known with some certainty from evidence that goes back to the official Athenian records. Those plays whose dates are prefixed by c. can be dated to within a few years by the internal evidence of Euripides’ changing metrical techniques.
Though tragic in form, Alcestis (438 bc; Greek Alkēstis) ends happily and took the place of the satyr play that normally followed the three tragedies. King Admetus is doomed to die shortly, but he will be allowed a second life if he can find someone willing to die in his place. His wife, Alcestis, voluntarily dies in place of her husband, who sees ...
One of Euripides’ most powerful and best known plays, Medea (431 bc; Greek Mēdeia) is a remarkable study of the mistreatment of a woman and of her ruthless revenge. The Colchian princess Medea has been taken by the hero Jason to be his wife. They have lived happily for some years at Corinth and have two sons. But then Jason casts Medea off and deci...
The plot of Children of Heracles (430 bc; Greek Hērakleidai) concerns the Athenians’ defense of the young children of the dead Heracles from the murderous intentions of King Eurystheus of Argos. The play is basically a simple glorification of Athens.
In Hippolytus (428 bc; Greek Hippolytos) Aphrodite, the goddess of love and sexual desire, destroys Hippolytus, a lover of outdoor sports who is repelled by sexual passion and who is instead devoted to the virgin huntress Artemis. Aphrodite makes Phaedra, wife of Theseus, the king of Athens, fall violently in love with her stepson Hippolytus. Phaed...
This play is set in the aftermath of the Trojan War. After an exciting beginning marked by strong anti-Spartan feeling, most of the original characters in Andromache (c. 426 bc) disappear and the interest is dissipated.
Also set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, Hecuba (c. 425 bc; Greek Hekabē) shows the double disaster that reduces the aged Trojan queen Hecuba, now a widowed slave, by sheer weight of hatred and misery to a mere animal ferocity. Hecuba first loses her daughter Polyxena, who is taken off to be sacrificed to the ghost of Achilles. Hecuba then disc...
The title figures of Suppliants (c. 423 bc; Greek Hiketides; Latin Supplices) are the mothers of the Argive leaders who have been killed while attacking Thebes. The bodies of their sons have been left unburied by the Thebans, and they eventually persuade the Athenians to recover them. It is disputed whether the play is a straightforward eulogy of A...
The title character of Electra (c. 418 bc; Greek Ēlektra) and her brother Orestes murder their mother, Clytemnestra, in retribution for her murder of their father, Agamemnon. Electra herself is portrayed as a frustrated and resentful woman who finally lures her mother to her death by appealing to her maternal instincts. After the horrible murder bo...
Euripides [a] ( c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most.
Apr 23, 2024 · The ancients knew of 92 plays composed by Euripides. Nineteen plays are extant , if one of disputed authorship is included. At only four festivals was Euripides awarded the first prize—the fourth posthumously, for the tetralogy that included Bacchants and Iphigenia at Aulis .
His best known works include “Alcestis” , “Medea” , “Hecuba” , “The Trojan Women” and “The Bacchae” , as well as “Cyclops” , the only complete satyr play (an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar to the modern-day burlesque style) known to survive.
Feb 4, 2019 · Learn about the life, innovations, and list of the 19 tragedies of Euripides (ca. 485-406 B.C.), a Greek tragic dramatist who wrote about women, mythology, and intrigue. Find out the dates, themes, and characters of his famous works such as Medea, The Bacchae, and Hippolytus.
The Trojan Women. Written 415 B.C.E. List of works by Euripides, part of the Internet Classics Archive.
