Euripides wrote ancient Greek tragedies about family conflict, war, exile and characters driven into extreme choices by desire, grief or political power. Medea follows a woman abandoned by Jason who turns betrayal into a devastating act of revenge, while The Bacchae centres on the god Dionysus and King Pentheus in a conflict between control and religious ecstasy. The Trojan Women presents the aftermath of war through women facing enslavement after the fall of Troy, and Hippolytus explores chastity, desire and divine punishment. Euripides often gives substantial dramatic space to women, foreigners and defeated people rather than only victorious heroes. Medea is the most accessible entry for readers of Greek tragedy, while The Bacchae offers a more unsettling treatment of religion, power and the instability of human reason. Read more Less
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