Euripides

Agamemnon

by Euripides

Agamemnon grapples with the agonizing decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the gods and ensure military victory. He expresses profound despair over the burden of leadership and the impossible choice between his duty as a king and his love as a father. The emotional stakes are life and death, centered on the betrayal of his family for political and divine necessity.

Medea

by Euripides

Medea delivers a powerful indictment of the social and domestic constraints placed upon women in her society. Her objective is to garner sympathy and solidarity from the women of Corinth by highlighting the vulnerability and lack of agency inherent in marriage and exile.