2007-2008 : Dedicated to Euripides
Articles concerning Euripides will be posted regularly. Feel free to send your article for publication.
First Article : Euripides : Friends and enemies
Euripides : friends and enemies
We cannot be sure that Euripides was a friend of Socrates. The two of them had a great respect for one another. It is said that Socrates did not like theatre much but he walked all the way to Piraeus, only to see a Euripides play. Still, we do not find Euripides conversing with Socrates in Plato’s dialogues.
Protagoras, the great sophist, used to visit often Euripides’ house, where he had read his famous book “On the Gods”.
One fact is 100% clear : the enmity of the comic writers. Aristophanes had “devoted” 3 comedies to Euripides. There has never been a poet who centered upon himself for more than 50 years the mocking attention of the popular writers. Still it is strange that the Athenian public never got tired of this persistent attack.
It is said that women in Athens naturally hated him. He was supposed to be an enemy of female sex. Although his heroines have been treated with greater insight than his heroes, all critics describe him as a women-hater.
Needless to say that he had been a controversial personality, a person austere, with a few close intimates.
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