Euripides Research Paper

Euripides was a Greek dramatist. He did a lot of work with other writers Aeschylus and Sophocles. They were considered the greatest of the Greek dramatists. Euripides went completely out of his way to introduce dramatic scenes in form and content. He was known as a philosopher to the poets. Euripides created things that didn’t seem possible to create, he put his own twist on religion with realistic characters. With how real his stories were and his passion for violence, Euripides was "the most tragic of the poets," and he completely changed European drama.

From all of the research I did the most commonly guessed time period he was born in was 485 B.C. there is even a possibility that he was born on the day the Greeks won freedom over Xerxes'.

Some plays written about him say that Euripides was very respectful, it seems that his family had a high social position and loved it very much. His father passed down a priesthood of Apollo Zosterios. This means he was as dancer and torch bearer. Euripides was given the same education of anyone in his class. He liked learning about music, dancing, and gymnastics, and he thought of himself as a major athlete. Euripides was not interested in politics but he was interested in anything that didn’t seem possible to be real. “Euripides” written by Satyrus tells you about Euripides's friendship with the philosopher Anaxagoras and he might have known Socrates and Protagoras who though a God lived at Euripides's house. Euripides first did a competition called “Athenian drama” in 455 B.C. with The Daughters of Pelias. The play won a

Mostly only titles are known, eighteen tragedies and one satyric play have made it through the years. The plays tell about Euripides and how he ran from the beliefs of Aeschylus and Sophocles, only because he wanted to form style, and characterization. Euripides used a lot prologue and epilogues. He wrote about the gods and myths that tells about the fifth century impossibilities. Euripides did not believe in traditional religion and virtue. He criticized society and he may have been charged with irreverence by Creon. Also, all but the earliest of his plays are written with the back-drop of the Peloponnesian War, they are mostly about heroic acts of war. For example, Euripides writes about the trouble of the Trojan women and the soldiers who have killed their husbands. The play was written after the Athenians had conquered Melos. This play explains how Euripides felt about the Athenian military. Euripides also has unusual characters, he wrote as people being slaves, mostly women. Aristotle says Sophocles makes characters as they are supposed to be, and Euripides made them as they are. Euripides's characters are more realistic than both of Aeschylus and Sophocles. He used everyday language to show attitudes close to everyone around him. For example, Electra shows Orestes killing of his mother was a crime of “contemporary significance.” Euripides's struggles are usually put into his characters, especially