Euripides

Euripides, 480 BC - 406 BC: 93 plays; only 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete; represented mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

• The Phoenician Women, history of King Eteokles, 410 BC
• two written shortly before his death
• Bacchae -- a vision
• Iphigenia at Aulis, the sacrifice, 
• Elektra -- the matricide
• Orestes --the Erinyes of conscience
• Iphigenia at Tauris -- the reconciliation
• Media -- uncontrolled passion
• Hippolytos -- sexual purism

The end of tragedy.