Medea & Other Plays

Features four tragedies all of which focus on a central character once powerful brought down by betrayal jealousy guilt and hatred.|Features four tragedies all of which focus on a central character once powerful brought down by betrayal jealousy guilt and hatred.|Euripides was an Athenian born in 484BC. A member of a family of considerable rank he disliked performing the publ...|Euripides was an Athenian born in 484BC. A member of a family of considerable rank he disliked performing the public duties expected of him preferring a life of introspection. He was not a popular figure and at some point (and for a reason unknown) he went into voluntary exile at the court of Archelaus King of Macedon. He died c.407BC and is thought to have written around ninety-two plays of which seventeen survive.