In this episode, we discuss the life, innovations, and works of the third great Athenian playwright, Euripides; and we discuss the historicity and some of the major themes of his earliest surviving plays--Cyclops, Rhesus, Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/08/052-early-euripides.html
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028 The Rise of Carthage
027 The Democracy of Cleisthenes
026 The Tyranny of the Peisistratids
025 The Reforms of Solon
024 Early Athens
023 THIS IS SPARTA
022 Sparta Ascendant
021 Athletics and the Panhellenic Games
020 The Intellectual Revolution
019 Poets and Wise Rulers
018 From Epic to Lyric
017 Archaic Art and Architecture
016 The "Age of Tyranny"
015 Colonization and the East
014 Colonization and the West
013 Hoplite Warfare
012 Oligarchs and Hesiod
011 From Oikos to Polis
010 Religion and Panhellenism
009 Greek Resurgence
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