Answer to Question #186508 in English for Prince Amofa

Question

With reference to the three tragic dramatists or playwrights of classical Greece, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes.

1. Find out the total number of plays written by each of them.
2. How many survived till this day.
3. Select any one play by any of them and provide a synopsis.

Answer 1

Aeschylus wrote close to ninety plays, where seven survive till this day. Sophocles as well wrote over one hundred plays where only seven survive till this day. Nonetheless, Euripides wrote ninety-five plays, where eighteen of them have survived. 

Euripides

Medea Synopsis

The catastrophe of Medea essentially is instigated in medias res, designated as that which is in-between entities. The medical attendant responsible for Medea's well-being moans the latter's destiny, of whom has been deserted with her two young by her better half, Jason, who has, in turn, wedded the descendant of Creon, ruler of Corinth. In the middle of her grievances, the medical attendant relays how Jason left his country of origin, Iolocus, in a boat called the Argo to discover a fortune called the Golden Fleece, which was sheltered by a mythical beast, a dragon, in Medea's country, the Island of Clochis.

 Aphrodite, the deity affiliated with love and affection, influenced the emotional affiliations of Medea concerning loving Jason and afterward assist him with stealing the Golden Fleece. Medea slaughtered her sibling, so those seeking after them would need to pause and entomb the corpse. In Iolocus, Jason and Madea conspired to overthrow the authority regarding the authority of King Pelias. Medea concocted a plan to dupe the daughters of Pelias into executing their father by assuring them that she would reestablish him in his childhood. Conversely, Medea didn't regenerate the lad, and consequently, Jason and Medea were pursued from Iolocus to Corinth, living essentially as outcasts.