052 - Early Euripides

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

Primary Sources:

Text/Euripides' Cyclops

Text/Euripides' Rhesus

Text/Euripides' Alcestis

Text/Euripides' Medea

Text/Euripides' Hippolytus

Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)

Video/Euripides & Ancient Greek Music (The Western Canon)

 

Photo/Statuette of Seated Euripides

Photo/Vase Painting of Cyclops and Satyrs

Photo/Vase Painting of Odysseus and Diomedes Stealing Horses of Rhesus

Video/How Admetus Avoided Death (Monarchs Factory)

Photo/Roman Fresco of Admetus and Alcestis at Pompeii

Video/Jason and the Golden Fleece & Euripides' Medea (The Western Canon)

Audio/Conversing The Classics - Medea 

Video/Medea (Foxwede History)

 

Video/Medea (Millenial Classicist)

Photo/Roman Fresco of Medea and Children at Pompeii

Photo/Vase Painting of Medea Stabbing her Child

Photo/Vase Painting of Medea on Helios' Chariot

Video/Hippolytus (Overly Sarcastic Productions)

 

Video/Hippolytus (Millenial Classicist)

Photo/Renaissance Sculpture of Hippolytus' Crash

Recommended Podcast Episodes:

***Ad Navseam - “Euripides? Eubuyides!”—Alcestis, Part 1

***Ad Navseam - “Honey, I’m Home!”—Alcestis, Part 2

***Deviant Women - Medea

***History of Literature - Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

***History of European Theatre - Euripides: An Outspoken Life

***History of European Theatre - Medea: Beware a Woman Scorned
***Literature and History - Euripides' Medea

***MythTake - Medea