In Aristotle's Poetics, this playwright was said to present individuals as they are, not as they should be. In one of his plays, Athena ordered Thoas [THOE-az] to not defy the will of Apollo, who had sent a Greek to capture a statue of Artemis. Another of his plays saw Menoeceus [meh-noe-KAY-us] and Jocasta stabbing their own throats, the latter following the dual murder of Eteocles [eh-TEE-oe-klees] and Polyneices [po-lee-NAY-kees]. This author of Iphigenia [if-ih-jeh-NEE-uh] in Tauris and The 
In Aristotle's Poetics, this playwright was said to present individuals as they are, not as they should be. In one of his plays, Athena ordered Thoas [THOE-az] to not defy the will of Apollo, who had sent a Greek to capture a statue of Artemis. Another of his plays saw Menoeceus [meh-noe-KAY-us] and Jocasta stabbing their own throats, the latter following the dual murder of Eteocles [eh-TEE-oe-klees] and Polyneices [po-lee-NAY-kees]. This author of Iphigenia [if-ih-jeh-NEE-uh] in Tauris and The Phoenician Women also wrote of Pentheus' attempts to use reason, and suffering at the hands of Dionysus' [die-oe-NIE-sus-es] followers. Name this author of The Bacchae.
In Aristotle's Poetics, this playwright was said to present individuals as they are, not as they should be.
Euripides