Euripides
Sign in to saveEuripides (; , ; ) 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 was an ancient Greek playwright from Athens who wrote tragic dramas and is one of only three Greek tragedians whose complete plays have survived to the present day. His work is historically significant because nineteen of his plays have been preserved in full, giving us more complete examples of his writing than we have from the other two major Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles.
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- Born
- 0480-09-20
- Died
- 0405-00-00
- Works
- 212
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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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35 objects attributed to Euripides, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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19 sectionsContents
- 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 (; , ; ) 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 Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
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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![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](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bsb-muenchen-digital.de%2Fweb1121%2Fbsb11217247%2Fimages%2Fbsb11217247_00005.jpg&type=IMAGE)
