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Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his.[1] Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. (Source.)

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Classical Athenian playwright

Born 480 BCE
Died 406 BCE

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Classical Athenian playwright

Born 480 BCE
Died 406 BCE

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Drama, Translations into English, Greek Mythology, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Greek drama (Tragedy), Trojan War, Euripides, Hecuba (Legendary character), Iphigenia (Greek mythology), Greek drama, Hippolytus (Greek mythology), Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology), Greek drama, translations into english, Helen of Troy (Greek mythology), Medea (Greek mythology), Heracles (Greek mythology), Alcestis (Greek mythology), Bacchantes, Criticism and interpretation, Pentheus (Greek mythology), Dionysus (Greek deity), great_books_of_the_western_world, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Orestes (Greek mythology), Andromache (Legendary character)

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Troy (Extinct city), Greece, Thebes, Thebes (Greece), Crete (Greece), Macedonia, Paris (Legendary character), Troy (Extinct citiy), Turkey

People

Euripides, Hecuba Queen of Troy, Iphigenia (Mythological character), Medea consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character), Bella Zweig, Electra (Greek mythological figure), Henry VIII King of England (1491-1547), Heracles (Greek mythological character), Hippolytus (Greek mythology), Ion (Mythological character), Mary-Kay Gamel, Medea, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Orestes King of Argos (Mythological character), Ruby Blondell, Theodore Alois Buckley (1825-1856)

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The Trojan War

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  • Euripides.
  • Euripide
  • Euripide.
  • EURIPIDES
  • EEuripides.
  • Euripedes.
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  • EURIPDES.
  • Euripedes
  • ( Eurípides
  • Eurpides
  • Eurípides

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September 5, 2025 Edited by mheiman merge authors
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September 3, 2023 Edited by David Scotson Added new photo
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import