Who knows about Euripides?!!

[Tyrath]

Random question.

So I saw someone say this somewhere, and I wanna know what exactly its referring to

"I feel worse than Euripides."

I know Euripides was a Greek tragedy playwright. But I cant find out what exactly that sentence is referring to.

Anyone have any idea why Euripides was supposed to be feeling bad or whatever??


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[Trippyhippy]

Because he was the original Emo.

 

[Rorschach]

It reminds me of a shirt that someone had that said "I feel how Rob Liefeld draws" every time I think of that I grin.

 

[Elpon]

Reminds me of the Lewis Black joke when he hears someone say "If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" and can't figure it out.
The moral of the story is stop trying to figure it out or you'll have a brain hemorrhage.

 

[Mattaru]

Just one of the big tragedy writers. Im sure i have read some of his plays. Im trying to remember the name of one of them...has to do with Jason of fleece fame abandoning his wife and her killing his kids etc. I get that name comefused with Aeschylus. I dont know what sets him apart from others off the top of my head as well.

 

[Elemmire]

Reminds me of the Lewis Black joke when he here's someone say "If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" and can't figure it out.
The moral of the story is stop trying to figure it out or you'll have a brain hemorrhage.

omg Lewis Black is so awesome XD

 

[Sanoske]

I know Euripides was ahead of his time. He wrote his works at the same time as 2 other Greek playwrights. Aeschylus was one, I forgot who the other one was. We did a bit on these guys at he beginning of the semester in my Greco Roman religion class. There was a festival/competition for playwrights called the Dionyma? Euripides only won 4 or 5 times... which was apparently pretty low, and had something to do with him ridiculing Greek heroes and officials.

Not sure why that saying would come about though... I didn't think he was *that* sad.

 

[Elpon]

wow, just remembered I took a Theatre history class this semester. Did not pass it though :/ This is what i gathered from the book.

It was Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophicles (guy who wrote the Oedipus trilogy). These are the three who works have survived. They wrote plays for the Dionysian Festival, a sabboth celebration held in the city of Dionysia. The reason Euripides was rarely honored was because he wrote plays that questioned Atheian beliefs. He was strongly disliked for suggesting that the gods of Greek myth were morally corrput.

You could some it down to the person feeling like know one likes them for their opinions i guess.

 

[Mr.Wonko]

The reason Euripides was rarely honored was because he wrote plays that questioned Atheian beliefs. He was strongly disliked for suggesting that the gods of Greek myth were morally corrput.

And yet, when Euripides died, Sophocles, perhaps the greatest of the three, lead his funeral procession.

 

[Skaw]

And yet, when Euripides died, Sophocles, perhaps the greatest of the three, lead his funeral procession.

Just because someones not liked in the public eye doesn't mean they can't be honored upon death for the works they've done.

 

[Mr.Wonko]

Just because someones not liked in the public eye doesn't mean they can't be honored upon death for the works they've done.

...Which is why I said that.

 

[Strid]

"I feel worse than Euripides."

Like most before me have already said, he wrote tragedies. So, maybe he isn't personally sad but people knew of him because of his plays. Emotion holds so much in our creative outlets that people just figure he was a sad individual. So when someone says this it's like saying I'm very very sad, depressed even.

 

[Elpon]

You are misunderstanding what tragedy is.
The tragedy you are thinking of does not relate to what a tragedy play is. All 3 of those playwrites wrote Tragedy (and the more comedic satyr plays but that's unrelate), including the late great Sophicles. That was the style of Greek plays. It's not about saddness or depressing issues, it's about these life affirming truths found throughout humanity. The tragedies were ahead of their time for their frank honesty of the "known" world. It was people fighting noble causes that would end with their deaths but still the fought for what the believe in. Not all endings turn out perfect and that was the message of these plays.