Euripide

Classical Athenian playwright · 480–406 BC

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani most often cites Euripides alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles, as one of the great Greek tragedians1 2. Together with Sophocles, he places him among the poets who are "in no way accursed"3, and he mentions him several times in the sequence of the tragedians without dwelling on him further. He mainly retains two features of his work. First, Euripides is reputed to be the most modern and the most interiorized of the three4. Second, The Bacchae, a play he says in 2018 he will recount another time, seems to him to unsettle the classifications between archaic and Hellenistic5. He links Greek tragedy to the punishment of hubris6. In 2024, in a session on Evil as a "misknowing" of oneself, he reads The Bacchae from this angle: Pentheus, too ethical, forbids the cult of Dionysus and ends up torn to pieces, which for him illustrates the punishment of "too much"7.

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Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments (some of them substantial) survive from most of his other plays. […]

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Season 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self

10:11Greek tragedian cited alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles.
13:09The BacchaePentheus, too ethical, forbids the cult of Dionysus and is torn apart: punishment for excess.