In one play by this author, a blond stranger bends a tall tree for another character to sit in the branches, before that character is mistaken for a mountain lion and killed. Another of this author's plays ends after Talthybius returns to the stage carrying the corpse of the baby Astyanax on his shield. He wrote a play in which Agave murders her own son Pentheus during a ritual of Dionysus, as well as a play about a barbarian woman who murders her own children after Glauce steals her husband Jason. For 10 points, name this author of The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and M
In one play by this author, a blond stranger bends a tall tree for another character to sit in the branches, before that character is mistaken for a mountain lion and killed. Another of this author's plays ends after Talthybius returns to the stage carrying the corpse of the baby Astyanax on his shield. He wrote a play in which Agave murders her own son Pentheus during a ritual of Dionysus, as well as a play about a barbarian woman who murders her own children after Glauce steals her husband Jason. For 10 points, name this author of The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and Medea, the youngest of the three Greek tragedians.
In one play by this author, a blond stranger bends a tall tree for another character to sit in the branches, before that character is mistaken for a mountain lion and killed.
Euripides