So how much do you think Euripides hated that scene in Libation Bearers, where Electra recognizes Orestes by a lock of his hair, a footprint, and a garment she made for him as kids, to mock it in Electra?
Was he watching a production of the play in an amphitheater, thought, "Really, she knew it was her long-lost brother from a footprint? We're actually doing this?," then turns left and right, sees no one looking weirded out by it, and "WAIT, IT WORKS?"?
Now, that doesn't mean Euripides disliked Aeschylus. The latter was this towering, almost legendary, player in the world of tragedy by Euripides' lifetime.
Heck, the whole joke only works if his audience knew of Aeschylus' Oresteia and could understand the reference.
Maybe not the same comparison, but we can enjoy a movie or play but still have that one scene that we roll our eyes to or just cringe to.
Euripides just had the chance to put that pet peeve in display in his very own play, while giving us an actual plausible reason for Electra to recognize her brother by him having a scar on his forehead.
