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Greek Tragedians

Euripides (485–406 BCE)

Aeschylus (525–456 BCE)

Sophocles (497–405 BCE)

Wrote 92 plays

- 19 survived (some pieces)

"Stage Philosopher"

- Good friends with Socrates and Pericles

THE BACCHAE

Theme: Opposite Forces

Euripides

Euripides dies!

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives"

"Talk sense to a fool

and he calls you foolish"

Spent final days in King Archelaus Court in Macedonia

piety

irrationality

forign

female

savagry

skepticism

reason

Greek

male

civilization

Self exile

"Question everything.

Learn something.

Answer nothing."

405

406

400

410

395 BCE

415 BCE

Dionysus

Criticism

The Bacchae

God of fertility, wine, theatre

"Euripides the irrational"

E. Dodds, C.R 43 (1929), pages 97-104

expression of his religious devotion or thought

405 BCE

City of Dionysus Festival Competition

Won 1st Prize (popular among ancient Greek)

-Greatest ever "written" (modern or ancient)

Eurpides the Younger (son or nephew)

pointing out the inadequacy of the Greek gods and religious, based on myth

"The poet uses the ritual crisis to explore simultaneously god, man, society, and his own tragic art. In this protodrama Dionysus, the god of the theatre, stage-directs the play

-Helene P. Foley

Until the late 19th century, the play's themes were considered too gruesome to be studied and appreciated.

protagonist

author

costume designer

choreographer

artistic director

'the poet of the Greek enlightenment'

W. Nestle, Euripides, Stuttgart (1901)

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