Euripides

Important terms:

EURIPIDES, ALCESTIS, ADMETUS, HERACLES, PHARES, ANDROMACHE, HERMIONE, PELEUS, MEDEA, ION, HIPPOLYTUS, DEUS EX MACHINA

Things to look for:

1.  Insight Euripides gives into important issues
    --treatment of women in society
    --family realationships
    --impact of war
    --man's relationship to the gods
    --the way in which should face death

2.  Specific examples of things that are impressive in Andromache and Alcestis.  Discuss plot, character, theme, setting, tone, use of dramatic irony, imagery, dialogue, use of the chorus, "catharsis," etc..

3.  Things which Euripides does better (or worse) than Aeschylus and Sophocles.