Euripides (c. 480 BCE) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is believed to have written over ninety plays, eighteen of which have survived. It is now widely believed that a nineteenth, Rhesus, was probably not by Euripides. [1] Fragments, some of them substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because of the chance preservation of a manuscript that was prob ...

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According to legend Euripides was born in Salamís on September 23 (480 BCE); the day of the Persian War's greatest naval battle. His mother's name was Cleito, and his father's either Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides. Evidence suggests that Euripides' family was financially well off, and very influential. As a result, he was exposed to the great philosophers of the day, including Protagoras, Socrates, and Anaxagoras. He had a wife named Melito, and together they had three sons. It is rumored that he also had a daughter, but she was k ...

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Euripides - Tragedies of Euripides. Alcestis (438 BCE, second prize) Medea (431 BCE, third prize) Heracleidae (c. 430 BCE) Hippolytus (428 BCE, first prize) Andromache (c. 425 BCE) Hecuba (c. 424 BCE) The Suppliants (c. 423 BCE) Electra (c. 420 BCE) Heracles (c. 416 BCE) Trojan Women (415 BCE, second prize) Iphigeneia in Tauris (c. 414 BCE)See also:

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

- Euripides

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Hippolytus. In Greek mythology, Hippolytus was a son of Theseus and either Antiope or Hippolyte. Hippolytus is the title of a tragedy by Euripides based on the myth. Hippolytus was a writer and the first antipope of the Roman Catholic Church. Other related archivesAntiope, Euripides, Greek mythology, Hippolyte, Hippolytus, Theseus

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Characters include: Electra Orestes Clytemnestra Pylades (silent) Castor Polydeuces (silent) a peasant, Electra's husband servants a chorus of Argive women The play is set in Argos, at the house of Electra and her husband. ...

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Years before, near the start of the Trojan War, the Greek general Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia in order to appease the goddess Artemis and allow the Greek army to set sail for Troy. His wife Clytemnestra never forgave him, and when he returned from the war ten years later, she and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon. Their daughter Electra was married off to a farmer, amidst fears that if she remained in the royal household and wed a nobleman, their children would be more likely to try to avenge Agamemnon's death. A ...

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Aeschylus (525 BC—456 BC; Greek: Αἰσχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus - Biography. Born in Eleusis, a district of Athens, he wrote his first plays in 498 BC, but his earliest surviving play is possibly The Suppliants, written in approximately 490 BC. That same year, he participated in the Battle of Ma ...

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Agathon (c. 448-400 BCE) was an Athenian tragic poet and friend of Euripides and Plato. He is best known from his mention by Aristophanes in his Thesmophoriazusae and in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy (416). He was the long time (10-15 years) beloved of Pausanias, also mentioned in the Symposium and Protagoras. Pausanias followed Agathon to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights. This is where Aga ...

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Andromache (c. 425 BC) is a play by Euripides. It follows Andromache during her life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War. Andromache play - Characters. Andromache Maid Chorus of Phthian Women Hermione Menelaus Molossus Peleus Nurse of Hermione Orestes Messenger Thetis Andromache play - Background. During the Trojan War, Andromache's husband Hecto ...

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In Greek mythology, Argea (or Argeia) was a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos. She was married to Polynices, the exiled king of Thebes. Sources include: Apollodorus 3.6.1 Euripides in The Phoenician Women and Suppliants, who mentions the wedding without giving her name. Hyginus, who in his Fabulae (Latin) calls her Argia. Robert Graves in his popular The Greek Myths (106c) prefers the spelling Aegeia. Other related

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Xenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian. Aristophanes calls him an execrable poet and was never tired of ridiculing him; describing, along with his father, Carcinus of Agrigentum, three brothers and a member of the third generation (also called Carcinus), "a whole potful of tragic crabs". Xenocles, or Zenocles, gained the first prize with one of his trilogies when in competition with Euripides. But Aelian accounts for this by saying that "the jury were either intellectually incapable of a proper decision or else they were bribed."

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In Greek mythology, Xuthus (Classical Greek Ξοῦθος) was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ion and Achaeus and a daughter named Diomede. Aiclus and Cothus are sometimes described as being his children. Euripides' play Ion provides an unusual alternate version, according to which Xuthus is son of Aeolus and Cyane and Ion has in fact been begotten on Xuthus' wife Creusa by Apo ...

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Chalandri, Halandri or sometimes Khalandri (Greek, Modern: Χαλάνδρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: Χαλάνδριον), older forms, Chalandrion, Halandrion, Khalandrion and in Ancient Greek Flia (Φλύα) is a northern suburb in Athens, Greece. It is the birthplace of Euripides. Halandri or Chalandri is a suburb in Northern Athens, around 10 km from the centre. The place where it lies corresponds to one of the 10 ancient Dimoi (burroughs) of Athens, called Fili (Φυλη in Greek). ...

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A princess in Greek mythology, Alcestis ("might of the home") was known for her love for her husband. Their story was popularised in Euripides's tragedy Alcestis. Apollo was, at one point, banned from Olympus for nine years. During this time he served as a shepherd for King Admetus of Pherae in Thessaly. Since Admetus treated Apollo well, the god promised him that when it came time for King Admetus to die, another would be allowed to take his place. Admetus then fell in love with Alcestis. Her father, though, King Pelias ...

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Alcestis is one of the earliest surviving works of the Greek playwright Euripides. The play was probably first produced at the Dionysia in the year 438 BC, well into the author's career. It is sometimes characterized as a satyr play and sometimes as a melodrama. Alcestis play - Characters and Setting. Characters include: King Admetus his wife, the princess Alcestis his father, the former king Pheres Herakles Apollo Death Eumelus and a ...

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Agave ("illustrious") was the queen of Thebes in Greek mythology, mother of Pentheus and daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus. She was a Maenad, a follower of Dionysus (also known as Bacchus in Roman mythology). She was married to Echion. In Euripides' play, "The Bacchae", Theban Maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Dionysos because he denied Dionysos' divinity. Dionysos, Pentheus' cousin, himself lured Pentheus to the woods, where the Maenads tore him apart and his corpse was m ...

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The Cyclops is an Ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, the only complete satyr play that has survived. It is a comical burlesque-like play on the same story depicted in book nine of The Odyssey by Homer. Cyclops play - Characters. Silenus Chorus of Satyrs Odysseus The Cyclops Mute: Companions of Odysseus Cyclops play - Background. Odysseus has lost his way on the voyage home from the Trojan War ...

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Belus (Greek Belos) the Egyptian is in Greek Mythology a son of Poseidon by Libya. He was a King of Egypt and father of Aegyptus and Danaus and (usually) brother to Agenor. Belus Egyptian - More genealogical information. Apollodorus (2.1.4) claims that Aegyptus and Danaus were twins and that their mother was Anchinoe (otherwise unknown) and that she was daughter of the river Nile. He says that it was Euripides who added Cepheus and Phineus as additional sons of Belus. Belus ruled in Egypt, and Agenor ...

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