Euripides

18 plays survive out of about 92.
Hippolytus
Hippolytus
Theseus
Phaedra
Potiphar’s wife motif

"Euripides the Psychologist"

"Euripides the Feminist (or) Misogynist"

Medea

Euripides’ treatment of traditional values

The Trojan Women

Intellectual controversies of the day

Euripides’ use of the chorus


Athenian Empire

Delian League
Delos and the Ionians
Good relations with Sparta under Cimon
Ostracism of Cimon: 461

Pericles and Athenian imperialism
Phidias the sculptor
Aspasia
hetaera

Peloponnesian War 431-404
Reasons for the war
Contrasts between Athens and Sparta
Pericles’ funeral speech