These two powerful classics of ancient drama are excellent examples of the author\'s gift for adapting traditional material for decidedly nontraditional effect.
He endows his figures with shrewdly observed individual character, implicitly deflating the emblematic simplicity of traditional narratives and making him seem the most modern of the great Greek dramatists..
Through them Euripides critically examines social and moral aspects of contemporary life and even specific political events.
These two powerful classics of ancient drama are excellent examples of the author\'s gift for adapting traditional material for decidedly nontraditional effect