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Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.)

Euripides (ū-rip’i-dēz). A great Greek tragic poet; born at Athens about 480 B.C.; died about 406. His dramas, according to the ancient Alexandrine grammatists, numbered 92. Of these, 19 have come down to our time: namely, the tragedies ‘Alcestis,’ ‘Andromache,’ ‘Bacchæ,’ ‘Hecube,’ ‘Helena,’ ‘Electra,’ ‘Heraclidæ,’ ‘The Mad Hercules,’ ‘The Suppliants,’ ‘Hippolytus,’ ‘Iphigenia at Tauris,’ ‘Iphigenia at Aulis,’ ‘Ion,’ ‘Medea,’ ‘Orestes,’ ‘Rhesus’ (not genuine, however), ‘The Trojan Women,’ ‘The Phœnissæ’; finally the satyr-play ‘Cyclops.’ Of his other plays we have only short fragments. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).

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