Euripides

Euripides’ place in literature alongside Aeschylus and Sophokles is due to his insight into human psychology (especially abnormal psychology, such as madness or obsessive love), his frequent and sympathetic use of female characters (unusual for a classical Greek male), and his bold questioning of the traditional religious ideas in the Greek myths. His best-known plays include Medea (431 B.C.E.), Hippolytus (428 B.C.E.), The Trojan Women (415 B.C.E.), and The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis (both presented posthumously, perhaps in 405 B.C.E.).

David Sacks, Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, rev. ed., rev. Lisa R. Brody (New York: Facts On File, 2005), 128.