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Playwright · Poet · Writer · Philosopher
One of the three great tragic poets of ancient Greece. By giving mythological characters human conflicts and doubts, he questioned the values of Athenian society. He is a person who thinks about classical literature.
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Medea
431 BC
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The Bacchae
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Raised in post-Persian War Athens, he experienced the tensions of democracy, imperial development, and the Peloponnesian War. Theaters were important public spaces where citizens thought about politics and religion.
In works such as ``Medea,'' ``The Trojan Women,'' and ``The Bacchus,'' she depicted stories of heroes and gods as human suffering, women's voices, and criticism of war. He is an author who has deepened his psychological depiction of tragedy.
Euripides was a controversial writer of his time, and was even lampooned by the comedy writer Aristophanes. This is because he doubted traditional myths and posed disturbing questions to the audience.
When you study Euripides, you realize that Greek tragedy was both a religious ritual and an ideological stage that dealt with questions of war, family, gender, and reason. It had a great influence on later theater. It can also be used for comparison with surrounding areas from the same era.
