Euripides Influences

Do you ever wonder what influences Euripides brought to his life and work? Overall, he indeed was one great greek dramatist writer. One of his techniques was to be realistic not fictional. His works later influence other people as in writers to rewrite his plays and other works. Euripides focused his vivid ideas, on making his tragedies more efficient by comparing them to how human nature because they were mostly based on how women were treated, how his life and career influenced him on not stopping and at the end his mysterious death occurred. Well known tragedies of this proficient writer of the greek dramatic world. Euripides a great writer was very intellectual with his work because, in all his plays he used more female characters than male. Another thing he would do is use real emotions to convey in a more negative side of the humanity. One of the three plays I am going to talk about is really famous. Starting, with “Medea” this play is about a woman that is trying to convince a god named Creon to allow her to stay in Corinth, Creon allows it to happen. Now the second top play is “Alcestis” this play talks about a greek myth as in a woman, who did everything in order to bring her husband back from the dead. Lastly, is this writing that was one of the last plays Euripides wrote in the end of

Euripides passed away 406 BCE in Macedonia, Greece at the court of king Archelaus (“Synopsis”). “He is said to have been killed by hunting dogs either accidentally let loose on him or rivals, or torn apart by women.” (“Euripides Biography”) Some say that he might have died in the Athens. Many people today wonder if he really died like they say or maybe he could have committed suicide, who knows really. This death was so unexplainable to a lot people, especially to the writers that admired his work, and rewrote his plays for them not be forgotten. His literature was so, put together that it was very influential