This must have been considered subversive in its time right?it very bluntly shows the horrors of slavery, which was very much normalized in 400 BC i would imagine it very bluntly shows the horror of war, Greek heros are shown as being savage plunderers and perverse rapists, not to mention cowards who would murder a small child out of vague fear it is basically a textbook "slave morality" tale, where the Greeks themselves are painted in an extremely grounded and horrific light rather than romanticized, glorious or heroic. even the gods who supported them are shown to be utterly repulsed by their actions Euripides really feels like a man ahead of his time ere
>>25399182It is a thinly veiled metaphor for the Melian siege. Athens at that time sieged the city and killed many civilians. It’s remembered for its generic anti-war message but it was written with intent of insulting Athenian elite and the army of that time.
>>25399203intradesting it does feel rather aggressively scathing so that would make sense
>>25399182>Euripides really feels like a man ahead of his time ereHe was also a feminist. I'm sad we don't have more of his works
>>25399182Euripides like plato was a moralizing cuck
>>25399517Basic rundownEuripides>Gods are cruel and heartless symbolizing nature's cruelty Sophocles>Gods can be cruel but generally there is some sort of fate and justice guiding each actionAeschylus>the most esoteric of the lot. His gods esp. Prometheus aren't necessarily the Olympian deities but something more like Being
>>25399182Yeah, Aristophanes called Euripides degenerate cuck and said he was turning Athens into a polis of pussies and then had the chorus do a kek chant.
