Euripides

Euripides (c. 480–406 BCE) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles.

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480 - 406 - Tragedians - Athens - Aeschylus - Sophocles

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He is believed to have written over ninety plays, eighteen of which have survived (it is now widely believed that a nineteenth, Rhesus, was written by someone else). Fragments, some of them substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because of the chance preservation of a manuscript that was probably part of a complete collection of his works.

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Euripides is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of traditional Attic tragedy by showing strong women characters and smart slaves, and by satirizing many heroes of Greek mythology.

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Attic - Hero - Greek mythology

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