{"id":157,"date":"2010-04-05T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/04\/05\/role-model-to-superheroes-euripides-%ce%b5%e1%bd%90%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%80%ce%af%ce%b4%ce%b7%cf%82\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T19:34:47","slug":"role-model-to-superheroes-euripides-%ce%b5%e1%bd%90%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%80%ce%af%ce%b4%ce%b7%cf%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/04\/05\/role-model-to-superheroes-euripides-%ce%b5%e1%bd%90%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%80%ce%af%ce%b4%ce%b7%cf%82\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Model to Superheroes: Euripides (\u0395\u1f50\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03af\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Euripides\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-QlC6Z4cUUKw\/TY4dQJ6hFlI\/AAAAAAAABcM\/aIG4DiAN9mc\/s1600\/aHyNHMV3le853oechFoABHvwo1_400.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Euripides (\u0395\u1f50\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03af\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2, ca. 480 BC \u2013 406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Euripides wrote ninety-five plays, eighteen have survived complete. Euripides is known for portraying strong female characters and focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown to Greek audiences. Sophocles said that he himself portrayed men as they ought to be, and Euripides portrayed them as they were.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I was thinking&#8221;, he answered absently, &#8220;about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life.&#8221;\u00a0Willa Cather, <i>The Professor&#8217;s House<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-3FhNtEOIJ3I\/TY4fOF6nnjI\/AAAAAAAABcQ\/66EB2SClZv4\/s1600\/DionysiusTheater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-3FhNtEOIJ3I\/TY4fOF6nnjI\/AAAAAAAABcQ\/66EB2SClZv4\/s640\/DionysiusTheater.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Our Euripides the human,\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">With his droppings of warm tears,\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">and his touchings of things common\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Till they rose to meet the spheres.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 Euripides (\u0395\u1f50\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03af\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2, ca. 480 BC \u2013 406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). 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