Euripides
Euripides(c. 480 BC–406 BC) was anAncient Greekwriter fromAthenswho wrote about 90plays.Only 18 of histragedieshave survived complete, more than all other surviving ancient Greek tragedies put together. A nineteenth play,Rhesusis sometimes thought to be by Euripides, but not all classicists agree on this.
Euripides was the last of the three greatestAncient Greekwriters of tragedies, the others beingAeschylusandSophocles.
Surviving plays
[change|change source]- Alcestis(439 BC, second prize)
- Medea(431 BC, third prize)
- Heracleidae(c. 430 BC)
- Hippolytus(428 BC, first prize)
- Andromache(c. 425 BC)
- Hecuba(c. 424 BC)
- The Suppliants(c. 423 BC)
- Electra(c. 420 BC)
- Heracles(c. 416 BC)
- Trojan Women(415 BC, second prize)
- Iphigeneia in Tauris(c. 414 BC)
- Ion(c. 414 BC)
- Helen(412 BC)
- Phoenician Women(c. 410 BC)
- Orestes(408 BC)
- BacchaeandIphigeneia at Aulis(405 BC, posthumous)
- Cyclops(408 BC)
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