Ten Plays by Euripides
| By: | Euripides |
| Publisher: | Random House Digital Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780553213638 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780307830463 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.