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Euripides

Euripides (; , ; ) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy 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. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments (some of them substantial) survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Soph

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Euripides (Εὐριπίδης) was a male playwright, writer, poet, and philosopher from Classical Athens. He was a member of the deme Phlya and wrote in Ancient Greek. His notable works include Alcestis, Andromache, The Bacchae, and Hecuba. He is associated with the genre of Greek tragedy and worked in the fields of drama, poetry, and philosophy.

He was born in 480 BCE, 485 BCE, 484 BCE, or 481 BCE in Classical Athens or Salamis Island. He died in 406 BCE, 407 BCE, or 405 BCE in Macedonia or Pella. His works have been described by sources such as the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and the Pauly–Wissowa. He is referenced by 2,425 other encyclopedia articles.

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Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians
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Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek 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. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There…

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Euripides (Ancient Greek: Εὐριπίδης) (ca. 480 BC – 406 BC) 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Euripides">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“ἁγὼ οὔτινι θύω πλὴν ἐμοί, θεοῖσι δ᾿ οὔ, καὶ τῇ μεγίστῃ, γαστρὶ τῇδε, δαιμόνων.”
“οὔποτε φήσω γάμον εὐφραίνειν πλέον ἢ λυπεῖν.”
“ἐχθρὰ γὰρ ἡ ᾿πιοῦσα μητρυιὰ τέκνοις τοῖς πρόσθ᾿, ἐχίδνης οὐδὲν ἠπιωτέρα.”
“εἰ δ᾿ Ὀρφέως μοι γλῶσσα καὶ μέλος παρῆν, ὥστ᾿ ἢ κόρην Δήμητρος ἢ κείνης πόσιν ὕμνοισι κηλήσαντά σ᾿ ἐξ ᾌδου λαβεῖν, κατῆλθον ἄν, καί μ᾿ οὔθ᾿ ὁ Πλούτωνος κύων οὔθ᾿ οὑπὶ κώπῃ ψυχοπομπὸς ἂν Χάρων ἔσχ᾿ ἄν, πρὶν ἐς φῶς σὸν καταστῆσαι βίον.”
“οὐ γάρ τι πρῶτος οὐδὲ λοίσθιος βροτῶν γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἤμπλακες· γίγνωσκε δὲ ὡς πᾶσιν ἡμῖν κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται.”
“κούφα σοι χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι.”

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Key facts

Person.name: Euripides
Person.image: File:Euripide (cropped).jpg
Person.caption: Bust of Euripides
Person.birth_place: Salamis
Person.death_date: (aged approximately 74)
Person.death_place: Macedon
Person.occupation: Playwright
Person.parents: Mnesarchus Cleito

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Classical Athens
Place of birth: Salamis Island
Place of death: Pella
Occupation: philosopher
Languages spoken: Ancient Greek
Notable work: The Phoenician Women
Field of work: philosophy
Genre: Greek tragedy
Image: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302.jpg

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topic's main category: Category:Euripides
Commons category: Euripides
Commons Creator page: Euripides
described by source: New International Encyclopedia
member of the deme: Phlya
name in native language: Εὐριπίδης
writing language: Ancient Greek
date of birth: 0480-09-20
date of death: 0405-00-00
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P13311: Marc Márquez

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Works in European collections

35 objects attributed to Euripides, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Euripidu Tragōdiōn hosa sōzontai. [1]

Ausgewählte Tragödien des Euripides. 1, Medea

Choirs and melodramas on the tragedy of Hippolytus

Euripidis Tragoediae Quatuor Hecuba Phoenix

Euripides :with an English commentary ; in three volumes. 1

Euripidis Tragoediae. 2,3, Continens Herculem furentem

Euripidou sozomena apanta Euripidis quae extant omnia

Euripidou Rhesos

"The dramas of the Euripides. 11, Andromache

Electra

Hecuba. Orestes. Phoenissae. Medea. Hippolytus. Alcestis. Andromache. Supplices. Iphigenia in Aulide

Iphigenia in Tauris. Rhesus. Troades. Bacchae. Cyclops. Heraclidae. Helena. Ion. Hercules Furens. Electra. Danae

Euripides' Werke :griechisch mit metrischer Uebersetzung und prüfenden und erklärenden Anmerkungen. 2, Trojerinnnen

Hecuba :ad fidem manuscriptorum emendata et brevibus notis ... instructa

Euripidu Hippolytos Stephanēphoros. [1]

Euripides' Werke :griechisch mit metrischer Uebersetzung und prüfenden und erklärenden Anmerkungen. 10, Alkestis

Euripidis Tragoediae. Vol. 2. Sect. 1, Helena

Euripidis Tragoediae. 1

Parma, Palatine Library, Parmense, Ms. Parm. 154

Euripidis Supplices et Iphigenia in Aulide et in Tauris. 2, Euripidis Iphigenia in Aulide et in Tauris : cum indicibus necessariis ; Accedunt: P. Emsleii annotationes in Euripidis Hecubam Herculem furentem et Sophoclis Aiacem

Opera omnia. 1. Hecuba, Orestes

Aristologia Evripidea Graecolatina. Hoc est, quicquid in Euripide, Tragicorum principe, memorabile est: Sententiae grauissimae, & doctrinae de totius uitae honesta & utili gubernatione, de omnibus quae in hominum uita accidere possunt :cum occasione singulorum dictorum, & accomodatione eorundem, ad marginem Graecum fideliter adscripta. Argumenta quoque singulis Tragoedijs, secundum historiae & fabularum ordinem, praemissa sunt. Acceßit quoq[ue] rerum & uerborum Index copiosus = Aristologia Eripideiē ellēnikolatinē

Euripidis Tragoediae quae exstant. 2

Hippolytos uwieńczony

Bachantki

Opera omnia. 2. Phoenissae, Medea

Euripides' Werke :griechisch mit metrischer Uebersetzung und prüfenden und erklärenden Anmerkungen. 16, Andromache

Portrait of Euripides.

Medea

Ifigenia w Aulidzie

Euripides

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Encyclopedic overview

19 sections

Contents

Life
A fabled life
A comic life
A tragedian's life
Work
Language
Reception
Texts
Transmission
Chronology
Extant plays
Lost and fragmentary plays
The "New Euripides"
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He was referred to by Aristotle as "the most tragic of poets", probably in reference to a perceived preference for unhappy endings, but Aristotle's remark is seen by Bernard Knox as having wider relevance, since "in his representation of human suffering Euripides pushes to the limits of what an audience can stand; some of his scenes are almost unbearable." Focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown, Euripides was "the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates". But he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

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