![]() Euripides found much he could adapt for his own purposes in contemporary speculations about the relationship between perception, language, and truth, between what is in the nature of things ( physis) and what is mere convention ( nomos). ![]() Euripides’ plays are awash with advanced and sometimes controversial ideas the ancient aristocrats of his dramas, and even their servants, are notoriously and anachronistically cognizant of the latest intellectual trends in philosophy and theology. From the beginning, he was linked to the new thinkers who were flooding Athens with radical ideas, in particular those philosophers, teachers of rhetoric, and “life coaches” known as Sophists, but also scientists and philosophers like Anaxagoras. ![]() “There is much in Euripides’ plays that reflects the intellectual ferment of his day. Medea About to Murder Her Children by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix, 1862 (Wikimedia Commons) ![]()
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