Medea – Euripides – Summary
Creusa gets her new magic dress from a slave Who wrote the Greek play Medea? The Greek playwright Euripides wrote it in Athens, in the late 400s BC. It's about the [...]
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Libation Bearers – Aeschylus – Summary
Libation Bearers: Orestes Who wrote the Libation Bearers? This is the second of a cycle of three plays written by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. In Greek, the play is the [...]
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Euripides’ plays – ancient Greece
Euripides' plays: Phaedra and her slave (a fresco from Pompeii, ca. 79 AD) When did Euripides live? Euripides was the youngest of the three great tragic playwrights of classical Athens. [...]
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Bacchae – Euripides – Summary
Bacchae: Followers of Bacchus (Dionysos) partying Liberty and license Euripides wrote this play, which is, like many of Euripides' plays (like Phaedra or Medea), primarily about the balance between self-control [...]
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Antigone – Sophocles – Summary
Antigone at her brother's grave, from the Louvre (Paris) Sophocles' Antigone Antigone is a play that Sophocles wrote. He was an Athenian, who lived in the 400s BC. The play tells the [...]
