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This seems to be from Kenneth Cavander’s translation of Euripides’ The Bacchae, which was published in 1968 under the title The Bacchae of Euripides (University of Nebraska Press). It was performed at ...

The claim that Euripides was “a torchbearer in the rites of Apollo Zosterius” comes, like many other biographical claims, from a short Life or Vita that was prefixed to the Byzantine manuscripts of ...

The extract in the question is E. P. Coleridge’s 1938 translation of lines 566–570: εἰ γὰρ γυναῖκες ἐς τόδ᾽ ἥξουσιν θράσους, ἄνδρας φονεύειν, καταφυγὰς ποιούμεναι ἐς τέκνα, μαστοῖς τὸν ἔλεον ...

In the story of the Argonauts, yes, Euripides' Medea did indeed influence later writers. As Andrew Zissos puts it in his commentary of Argonautica I (Oxford, 2008), "Euripides' focus on Jason's ...

TL;DR: It is not possible to identify the specific events or circumstances that motivated Euripides to write this speech. The diatribe against the Spartans in Andromache was surely intended to have a ...