Euripides

Euripides was the youngest of the three Athenian tragedians and the least honoured in his lifetime, winning only four victories; he left Athens for the court of Macedon in old age and died there. Eighteen of his plays survive, more than of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because he became the most read of the three. Medea and Hippolytus put women’s passions at the centre; The Trojan Women was staged the year after Athens massacred Melos; The Bacchae, produced after his death, shows Dionysus destroying the king who denies him. Aristotle called him the most tragic of the poets.