Euripides
480 BCE – 406 BCE Greek playwright
The most modern of the Greek tragedians, sympathetic to outsiders and women.
- Religion
- Greek polytheism, but he questioned the gods and was suspected of impiety.
- Affiliations
- None. He kept apart from public life.
Euripides gave voice to women, slaves, and the marginal, and probed the darker corners of myth and psychology. Plays like Medea and The Bacchae unsettle easy morality and question divine justice. His realism and skepticism made him a favorite of later ages.