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Euripides | | Birth Date: |
September 23, 480 B.C. | | Death Date: |
406 B.C. | | Place of Birth: |
Salamis, Greece | | Place of Death: |
Pella, Greece | | Nationality: |
Greek | | Gender: |
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playwright |
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 Biography of Euripides
6,596 words, approx. 22 pages
 Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the... summary from source:
 Biography of Euripides
6,343 words, approx. 21 pages
Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen, in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the... summary from source:
Biography of Euripides
1,772 words, approx. 6 pages
Euripides (480-406 BC) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the Greek poets. He is certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times. Euripides was the son of Mnesarchus. The family owned property on the... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Euripides Information
1,703 words, approx. 6 pages
 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,...
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 AP News Review: New play re-examines Euripides
8/26/2007: 474 words, approx. 2 pagesDirector Tina Landau knows how to do bold.Her take on Charles Mee's "Iphigenia 2.0" is aggressive, in-your-face theatrical, a startling, ambitious re-examination of the Euripides classic done in modern dress and sporting an up-to-the-minute sensibility that suggests today's Iraq conflict as much as it does... summary from source:
The New York Observer Charles Mee\'d5s Euripides: Iphigenia as Beverly Hills Bride
9/11/2007: 635 words, approx. 2 pagesCharles Mee, one of the village elders of the New York avant-garde scene, is being honored by the Signature Theatre Company with his own season, a richly deserved accolade. The 68-year-old innovator joins an elite group of major American artists—like Edward Albee, Adrienne Kennedy, John...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by William Nickerson Bates
19,199 words, approx. 64 pages
In the following excerpt, Bates reviews the characteristics of Euripides's tragedies in terms of the biographical and social conditions that helped create them.
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Critical Essay by Helene P. Foley
19,096 words, approx. 64 pages
In the excerpt that follows, Foley contends that in his dramas Euripides uses ritual to bridge the gaps between public and private, past and present, divine and human, and myth and secular communication in "response to poetic, social, and intellectual tensions within Attic culture."
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Critical Essay by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
17,569 words, approx. 59 pages
In the following essay, Rosenmeyer questions whether Bacchae and Ion are "religious tragedies in the proper sense of the word" and concludes that the plays express very different attitudes about the relationship between gods and men.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 95%The Life of Euripides
1,285 words, approx. 4 pages
This is an essay on the life of Euripides and what he contributed to Greek as well as modern history.
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