I loved this play! It was certainly one of my favourites of Euripides’. It tells the post-Trojan-War story of three women: Andromache, wife of Hector
Category: Drama
Euripides’ Hippolytus Synopsis The goddess Aphrodite, angered by a man called Hippolytus’ chastity and dismissal of her, decides to take action. She makes Hippolytus’ step-mother
Brief synopsis Euripides’ Medea tells the well-known Greek myth of the woman Medea who, upon discovering that her husband Jason of the Argonauts had left
Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of Classical Greek theatre, alongside Sophocles and Aeschylus. He was supposedly born in Salamis in 480
OEDIPUS REX PLOT SUMMARY The play opens with a priest telling King Oedipus about the plague that destroys Thebes. The priest asks for Oedipus’ help
INTRODUCTION Aeschylus, often described as the Father of Tragedy by both his Greek contemporaries and modern scholars, was born in c. 525 BCE in Sicily,