That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

However its rhythms are somewhat freer and more natural than that of his predecessors and the vocabulary has been expanded to allow for intellectual and psychological subtleties. a type of the war-time demagogues that were active in Athens during the Peloponnesian War. For example it is possible that he never visited Macedonia at all or if he did he might have been drawn there by King Archelaus with incentives that were also offered to other artists.

480 – 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Recent scholarship casts doubt on ancient biographies of Euripides. Whereas Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age dying in Macedonia.