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Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most.
5 days ago · Greek dramatist. Professor of Greek, University of Bristol, England, 1944–62. Author of Greek Tragedy; Form and Meaning in Drama. Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford; Reader in Greek Literature, University of Oxford. Author of Greek Tragedy in Action and others.
Aug 9, 2023 · Euripides was one of the great Athenian playwrights and poets of ancient Greece, known for the many tragedies he wrote, including 'Medea' and 'The Bacchae.' Updated: Aug 9, 2023. Getty Images....
Apr 17, 2015 · Euripides (c. 484-407 BCE) was one of the greatest authors of Greek tragedy. In 5th century BCE Athens his classic works such as Medeia cemented his reputation for clever dialogues, fine choral lyrics and a gritty realism in both his text and stage presentations. The writer of some 90 plays, Euripides was also famous for posing awkward ...
Euripides - Tragedy, Classics, Greek: The dates of production of nine of Euripides’ plays are known with some certainty from evidence that goes back to the official Athenian records. Those plays whose dates are prefixed by c. can be dated to within a few years by the internal evidence of Euripides’ changing metrical techniques.
Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Greece (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Largely due to an accident of history, eighteen of Euripides’ ninety-five plays have survived in a complete form, along with fragments (some substantial) of many of his other plays.
Euripides , (born c. 484 bc, Athens—died 406 bc, Macedonia), Greek playwright. With Aeschylus and Sophocles , he is recognized as one of Athens’s three great tragic dramatists. An associate of the philosopher Anaxagoras , he expressed his questions about Greek religion in his plays.
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