Peliades or Daughters of Pelias () is the earliest known tragedy by Euripides; he entered it into the Dionysia of 455 BC but did not win.
History
The
Peliades recounts the story of the daughters of Pelias murdering their father under the instruction of
Medea, who claims to be able to make him young again, working on behalf of
Jason and the
Argonauts. Classicist
Herbert Mierow suggested that Euripides' telling of the tragedy was influenced by
Aeschylus's play Agamemnon that was produced three years earlier in 458 BC, based on the shared opening on a fire as a signal that initiates the action of both plays.
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