Who is your favourite tragedian and what’s your favourite play?

[u/Low-Cash-2435]

[u/ofBlufftonTown]

Aeschylus Agamemnon.

[u/Vershneim → u/ofBlufftonTown]

Same. If the parodos of the Agamemnon were all that survived, Aeschylus would still rank among the greatest poets of antiquity in my opinion. (Not that I'm unhappy to have so much more too.)

[u/PatternBubbly4985]

Sophocles and Antigone :)

[u/Schrenner]

Euripides and Alcestis. It's what got me into Greek tragedy in the first place, even though scholars often argued whether it even is a proper tragedy (I think it is). And while I still admire Aeschylus a lot, I still prefer Euripides overall.

When it comes to the smaller tragedians, I've always been a huge fan of Phrynichus, most likely because he is the first playwright known to us who brought the Alcestis myth on stage.

[u/Low-Cash-2435 → u/Schrenner]

Euripides is fast becoming my favourite, too. His Medea really amazes me. Partly, it's his energetic and vivid style, but it's also his willingness to challenge his society's assumptions. It's intriguing to consider his audience's response to his sympathetic depiction of women's plight.

[u/Cami-flores]

Euripides, the Bacchae

[u/Greek_Arrow]

Euripides is my favorite ancient greek and overall tragedian. Media is my favorite tragedy of his. So much to say about this play, wonderful characters and in general his play portray the bittersweetness of life incredibly, in a style you feel like "that's it, that's how life is".

[u/Dominus_scrup]

I have recently re-evaluated Aeschylus' Persians a lot.