(ca. 480 - 406 b.c.) a poet of ancient Greece and the author of numerous tragedies. His literary strength
lay in his
ability to represent ordinary human beings, especially women, with impassioned
sympathy.
(ca. 484?406 B.C.) dramatist of ancient Greece. In his plays, Euripides took the heroic figures of ancient
legend and transformed them into ordinary people with
contemporary attitudes whose tragic fates stemmed almost entirely from their own flawed natures and uncontrolled
passions. He frequently depicted the gods as irrational, petulant and indifferent to human suffering.