Now in paperback. Euripides the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. Euripides the classicist Bernard Knox has written was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so. His plays were shockers he unmasked heroes revealing them as foolish and savage and he wrote about the powerlesswomen and chi