Only 42 lines spoken by Sisyphus remain from a no longer extant play originally credited to Critias but now attributed to this author.
Only 42 lines spoken by Sisyphus remain from a no longer extant play originally credited to Critias but now attributed to this author. His only satyr play, Cyclops, describes the captivity of Silenus while Odysseus arrived after leaving Troy, while he wrote two plays about a daughter of Agamemnon, who helps her brother and Pylades escape to Greece. In addition to Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, he wrote about Menoeceus's sacrifice to stop the war between Polynices and Eteocles in The Phoenician Women. This author also wrote about Helen's plea to Menelaus for her life in one play, while he wrote about the death of Aegeus and Glauce thanks to Jason's vengeful wife in another. FTP, name this Greek dramatist of The Trojan Women and Medea.
Only 42 lines spoken by Sisyphus remain from a no longer extant play originally credited to Critias but now attributed to this author.
{Euripedes}