In this episode, we discuss the plays of Euripides that he produced against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War (Children of Herakles, Andromache, Hecuba, Suppliants, Electra, Madness of Herakles, Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion, Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes, and Iphigenia at Aulis, excluding the Bacchae)
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/08/053-euripides-at-war.html
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048 Food, Wine, and the Symposium
047 Herakles: From Zero to Hero
046 Monsters and Heroes
045 Music and Victory Odes
044 Democracy under Pericles
043 Imperial Athens
042 The Undeclared War
041 The End of an Era
040 War Hawks and Peace Doves
039 The Greek Counterattack
038 Behind the Wooden Walls
037 Molon Labe
036 The Marathonomachoi
035 The Ionian Revolt
034 Rising Tensions
033 The "Great King" Darius
032 Cambyses
031 Cyrus the Great
030 Herodotus and the Rise of Persia
029 The First Greco-Punic War
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