Euripides - Life

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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Euripides first competed in the famous Athenian dramatic festival (the Dionysia) in 455 BCE, one year after the death of Aeschylus. He came in third, because he refused to cater to the fancies of the Judges. It was not until 441 BCE that he won first place, and over the course of his lifetime, Euripides claimed a mere four victories. He was a frequent target of Aristophanes' humor. He appears as a character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae, and most memorably in The Frogs, where Dionysus travels to Hades to bring Euripides back from the dead. After a competition of poetry, Di ...

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Euripides, Euripides - Life, Euripides - His plays, Euripides - Works, Euripides - Tragedies of Euripides, Euripides - Fragmentary tragedies of Euripides, Euripides - Satyr play, Euripides - Spurious plays

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