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3 timestamped hits 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Aliases: posthumous-reputations

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Posthumous Reputation

Jiang says Euripides believed theater should awaken people, challenge their reality, and educate or edify them; this made him hated by contemporaries but respected by later generations.

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Historical-literary account stated on 2024-10-17.

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Jiang identifies the Bacchae as Euripides's posthumously returned masterpiece and frames it as the final major example after Trojan Women.

Interpretive reception claim stated on 2024-10-17.

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Jiang says Euripides believed theater should awaken people, challenge their reality, and educate or edify them; this made him hated by contemporaries but respected by later generations.

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Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"Okay? He died away from Athens. And his last play, he wrote his last play called, the Bacchae in Macedonia. And after he died,..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"And that's because well, Euribides was dead, OK? And they were able to see the genius and imagination of the Bac Chai much more..."

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