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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.
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- 1981
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- Title
- Ten Plays by Euripides
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Euripides
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Released
- 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0553213636
- ISBN13
- 9780553213638
- Series
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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.