1. Euripides And His Tragedies Biography of ancient Greek dramatist euripides and analysis of his poetic qualities. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/euripides001.html

EURIPIDES AND HIS TRAGEDIES This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 1 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 158-166. Purchase Books by Euripides "The sure sign of the general decline of an art," says Macaulay, "is the frequent occurence, not of deformity, but of misplaced beauty. In general tragedy is corrupted by eloquence." This symptom is especially conspicuous in Euripides, who is constantly sacrificing propriety for rhetorical display; so that we are sometimes in doubt whether we are reading the lines of a poet or the speeches of an orator. Yet it is this very quality which has in all ages made him a much greater favorite than Aeschylus or Sophocles ; it is this which made tragi-comedy so easy and natural under his treatment; which recommended him to Menander as the model for his new comedy, and to Quintilian as the model for oratory. In the middle ages he was far better known than his two great contemporaries; for this was an era when scholastic subtleties were mistaken for eloquence, minute distinctions for science, and verbal quibbles for proficiency in dramatic art. Pitiable also is his habit of punning, as in the Bacchae where his Greek may be rendered, "Take heed lest Pentheus makes your mansion a pent-house of grief." Even Shakespeare, the most incorrigible of punsters, has nothing worse than this. Yet Aeschylus is fully as bad, speaking for instance of Helen in his

2. Euripides A biography of the Greek dramatist; includes a list of related links. http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/euripides_001.html

Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... 20th Century EURIPIDES (C. 485 - 406 B.C.) The following biography was originally published in Minute History of the Drama THERE is more unadulterated gossip about Euripides than about either Sophocles or Aeschylus : about his birth, which for the sake of connecting him with the battle of Salamis and thus with the careers of Aeschylus and Sophocles, gossip tries to place in 480 B.C.; about his parentage, probably due to scurrilous remarks in the comedies of Aristophanes referring to them as "hucksters" and "green grocers"; about his youth, when, according to unfounded report, he was trained for a professional wrestler; and, finally, about his marriage, wherein rumor represented him as finding both his first and second wives unfaithful. All this can be ascribed to the fact that ancient biography resorted to invention in order to connect the poet's writings with supposed personal experiences and thus assign a reason for them. From all the confusion a few facts stand out. Euripides in temperament was just the opposite of Sophocles . . . of a studious and retiring disposition, fond of the companionship of intimate friends, but averse to general society. A favorite retreat was a grotto that looked out upon the sea. Here in complete retirement he liked to study and write. From numerous allusions of contemporary writers, we know, too, that his library was celebrated for its completeness. Of the three great tragic poets of Greece, Euripides was by far the most modern. As the first of the "realists" he brought realism in clothes, conversation and character to the Greek stage. He was a pioneer in tragi-comedy

3. The Euripides Home Page Collection of links to euripides resources on the Web. http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/euripides.

English 2203 Home The Euripides Home Page Aeschylus, Euripides, and Dionysus Biography and Background Euripides: Biography from the Perseus Encyclopedia Euripides Bibliography from Diotima Michael Psellus on Euripides and George of Pisidia by Mary Whitby Texts Works of Euripides from The Internet Classics Archive An index to the same editions at MIT from University of Hanover Works of Euripides from Perseus (in Greek and English) Criticism Medea Medea Homepage by Steven Hale The Suppliant Women Aithra at Eleusis by Barbara Goff The Bacchae The Bacchae: Was Euripides a Disciple of Dionysus an essay by Brigid Marasco Orestes How Is It Played? Flesh or Fish or What? Euripides' Orestes by Victor Castellani, from Didaskalia Hippolytus For the Hippolytus of Euripides a poem by Peggy Pond Church Euripides Resources on the Internet Chat and Bulletin Boards Euripides Lecture Hall A bulletin board from Western Canon University Euripides Live Recitation A chat room from Western Canon University English 2203 Home Resources for World Literature This page maintained by Steven Hale DeKalb College . E-mail: shale@gpc.edu

4. Euripides - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia euripides (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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides

Euripides From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is about the classical Greek tragedian. For the asteroid, see 2930 Euripides Euripides Bust of Euripides: Roman marble copy of a 4th-century Greek original ( Museo Pio-Clementino , Rome) Born c. 480 BC Salamís Died c. 406 BC Macedonia Occupation Playwright Euripides Ancient Greek ) (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, although four of those were probably written by Critias . Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus , largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his. Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. Euripides is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of Athenian tragedy citation needed by portraying strong female characters citation needed and intelligent slaves and by satirizing many heroes of Greek mythology . His plays seem modern by comparison with those of his contemporaries, focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown to Greek audiences.

5. Euripides - Definition And More From The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of word from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/euripides

6. Euripides (c. 480-406 B.C.) Biography of Greek playwright euripides, plus links to all of his works currently in print http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc4.htm

Euripides Euripides was exposed early to the religion he would so stubbornly question as an adult. As a child, he served as cup-bearer to the guild of dancers who performed at the altar of Apollo. The son of an influential family, he was also exposed to the great thinkers of the dayincluding Anaxagoras, the Ionian philosopher who maintained that the sun was not a golden chariot steered across the sky by some elusive god, but rather a fiery mass of earth or stone. The radical philosopher had a profound effect on the young poet, and left with him a passionate love of truth and a curious, questioning spirit. Always a lover of truth, Euripides forced his characters to confront personal issues, not just questions of State. In many ways, he is the forerunner of the modern psychological dramatist. In Hippolytus and The Bacchae , he explores the psyche of men attempting to deny a natural life-force such as sexuality or emotional release. In another timeless classic, Medea , he takes a penetrating look at the frenzied jealousy of a woman who has lost the interest of her middle-aged husband. Perhaps his finest contribution to world drama, however, was the introduction of the common man to the stage. Even his traditional nobles such as Agamemnon and Menelaus were anti-heroic, almost as if he wanted to show the Athenian people what their beloved military heroes were really like.

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8. Euripides: Poems A collection of poems by the Greek dramatist euripides. http://www.poetry-archive.com/e/euripides.html

POEMS BY EURIPIDES: A Brave Man's Fatherland Cassandra's Wild Marriage-song Children in the House Farewell to Alcestis ... The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis RELATED WEBSITES The Age of Euripides - A look at the political and religious atmosphere in which Euripides composed his plays. The Cyclops - Complete text of the play by Euripides. Dialogue of Euripides - An analysis of the dialogue and musical composition of Euripides. Euripides - A biography and list of related links. Euripides - A biographical sketch of the Greek dramatist. Euripides - A brief biography. Euripides (c. 480-406 B.C.) - A biography. Euripides and His Tragedies - Biography of the Greek dramatist and analysis of his poetic qualities. Euripides: Bibliography - A list of his surviving works. Euripides: Monologues - A collection of monologues for actors.

9. Euripides: Biography From Answers.com (born c. 484 BC , Athens — died 406 BC , Macedonia) Greek playwright. With Aeschylus and Sophocles , he is recognized as one of Athens's three great tragic dramatists. An http://www.answers.com/topic/euripides

var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library Animal Life Health History, Politics, Society ... Technology Euripides Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Euripides Home Library Miscellaneous Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (born c. BC BC , Macedonia) Greek playwright. With Aeschylus and Sophocles , he is recognized as one of Athens's three great tragic dramatists. An associate of the philosopher Anaxagoras , he expressed his questions about Greek religion in his plays. Beginning in 455, he was repeatedly chosen to compete in the dramatic festival of Dionysus; he won his first victory in 441. He competed 22 times, writing four plays for each occasion. Of his 92 plays, about 19 survive, including Medea Hippolytus Electra The Trojan Women Ion Iphigenia at Aulis (406), and The Bacchae (406). Many of his plays include prologues and rely on a deus ex machina . Unlike Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides made his characters' tragic fates stem almost entirely from their own flawed natures and uncontrolled passions. In his plays chance, disorder, and human irrationality and immorality frequently result in apparently meaningless suffering that is looked on with indifference by the gods. For more information on Euripides , visit Britannica.com

10. Ancient Greek Online Library | Euripides euripides. Biography and plays by this great author euripides Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation http://www.greektexts.com/library/Euripides/index.html

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11. Euripides: Monologues An index of monologues by the Greek dramatist euripides. http://www.monologuearchive.com/e/euripides.html

MONOLOGUES BY EURIPIDES: Alcestis - dramatic monologue for a man. The Bacchae - dramatic monologue for a man. The Cyclops - dramatic monologue for a man. Electra - dramatic monologue for a woman. Electra - dramatic monologue for a woman. Hecuba - dramatic monologue for a woman. Helen - dramatic monologue for a woman. Helen - dramatic monologue for a woman. Hippolytus - dramatic monologue for a woman. Hippolytus - dramatic monologue for a man. Ion - dramatic monologue for a man. Ion - dramatic monologue for a man. Iphigenia in Aulis - dramatic monologue for a woman. Iphigenia in Aulis - dramatic monologue for a woman. Iphigenia in Tauris - dramatic monologue for a woman. Medea - dramatic monologue for a woman. Medea - dramatic monologue for a man. Medea - dramatic monologue for a woman.

12. Euripides Source. The last of Athens' great tragic poets is euripides (Ευριπίδης) ( 486/480, 406 BC). Legends says that he was born on Salamis the same day of the Salamis battle http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Live/Writer/Euripides.htm

Euripides Source The last of Athens' great tragic poets is Euripides ( ) ( 486/480, - 406 BC). Legends says that he was born on Salamis the same day of the Salamis battle victory. His mother's name was Cleito, and his father's either Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides. There is a tradition that states Cleito earned an income by selling herbs in the marketplace; Aristophanes found this to be a source of amusement and used it in many comedies. However, there is significant evidence which leads most to believe that Euripides' family was quite comfortable financially, and wouldn't have needed such a source of income. He was a friend of Socrates and to some he spent his time mostly alone outside Athens. According to ancient sources, he wrote over 90 plays, 18 of which are extant (since it is now widely agreed that the play Rhesus was actually written by someone else). Fragments of most of the other plays survive, some of them substantial. The number of Euripides' plays that have survived is more than that of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to the chance preservation of a manuscript that was likely part of a complete collection of his works. His plays are more exuberant than those of Sophocles and Aeschylus; often, he has the heroes and heroines face difficult choices, which are finally solved by the sudden appearance of a god (

13. Euripides Writer Of Greek Tragedy - Who Was Euripides Writer Of Greek Tragedy euripides (c. 484407/406) was a Greek writer of tragedy. euripides introduced drama about love to Old Comedy. Third of the great Greek tragedians, euripides was born c. 484 B http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/medeaeuripides/p/Euripides.htm

zWASL=1;zGRH=1 zGCID=this.zGCID?zGCID+" test11":" test11" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Ancient / Classical History Ancient / Classical History Search Ancient History Wars Share w(x2+zWl+'?p=1" zT="18/1[N" rel="nofollow">Print') Free Ancient History Newsletter! Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Euripides - Greek Tragedy and Euripides By N.S. Gill , About.com Guide See More About: euripides greek tragedy playwrights greek theater ... greek poets Euripides Clipart.com More Images zSB(3,3) Who Was Euripides?: Euripides (c. 484-407/406) was an ancient writer of Greek tragedy the third of the famous trio (with Sophocles and Aeschylus Euripides wrote about women and mythological themes like Medea and Helen of Troy . He enhanced the importance of intrigue in tragedy. Some aspects of Euripides' tragedy seem more at home in comedy than in tragedy, and, indeed, Euripides is considered to have been a significant influence on the Greek creation of New Comedy. Euripides - Life and Career of Euripides: A contemporary of Sophocles, Euripides was born around 484 B.C. on Salamis and died in 406 in Macedonia. His first competition was in 455 when he came in third. His initial first prize came in 442, but out of about 92 plays, Euripides won only 4 more first prizes the last, posthumously. Despite winning only limited acclaim during his lifetime, Euripides was the most popular of the three great tragedians for generations after his death. Euripides - Death: Euripides died in 407/406, not in Athens, but in Macedonia, at the court of King Archelaus. Euripides was in Macedonia either in self-imposed exile or at the king's invitation. An improbable variety of explanations for his death shows how controversial Euripides was: "He is said to have been killed by hunting dogs, either accidentally let loose on him or deliberately set on him by enemies or rivals, or torn apart by women." This could be a doublet of Euripides' own

14. Euripides euripides (485406 bce), unlike Aeschylus and Sophocles, had no significant official public life in 5th-century bce Athens. The size of his library suggests instead a private http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/euripides.html

Orpheus EURIPIDES Euripides (485-406 bce), unlike Aeschylus and Sophocles, had no significant official public life in 5th-century bce Athens. The size of his library suggests instead a private intellectual life. He won first prize at the annual dramatic contests less often than the other two because, probably, of what Aristotle later would call "irregularities" actually his nonconformist and iconoclastic attitude regarding Greek religion and Athenian politics. He was the target of comic poets (as in Aristophanes' Frogs ), and, when 73 years old and apparently disgusted with his treatment, he accepted an invitation from King Archelaus to live in Macedonia, where he wrote a few more plays. Among these last was The Bacchae , which won first prize in Athens when presented after his death. Euripides gained a reputation as a misogynist (and although one legend has him being torn apart by dogs at death, another claims it was women), but only because of willful misinterpretation of his plays, for he liked exploring abnormal mental states and dramatized exotic and disturbing myths that challenge the establishment: Hippolytus : stepmother Phaedra in love with her stepson Andromache : a "barren" jealous wife plans the murder of her husband's concubine and son Sthenoboea: a "Joseph and Potiphar's wife" plot Aeolus: a brother and sister in love Auge: a girl bears an illegitimate child in a temple Medea : a mother murders her two sons Euripides subtle social critique included the Athenian relegation of women to lower status than men. Note how many of even his surviving plays feature women as the main character.

15. Euripides Collection At Bartleby.com Online texts of some of euripides plays. http://www.bartleby.com/people/Euripide.html

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16. Euripides Quotes - The Quotations Page euripides The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Euripides

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) Greek tragic dramatist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 42 total Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. Euripides Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. Euripides - More quotations on: [ Joy Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides - More quotations on: [ Balance The wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides - More quotations on: [ Dreams Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides - More quotations on: [ Grief When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. Euripides Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Euripides Your very silence shows you agree.

17. Euripides, The Bacchae PREMIERE 405 B.C. (after euripides died in exile in Macedonia, the news of which event had reached Athens before the Dionysia of 406, in Elaphabolion, the 9th Athenian month, ca http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/e-bacch.html

Euripides, The Bacchae (Powell, Classical Myth , pp. 272-283.) PREMIERE: 405 B.C. (after Euripides died in exile in Macedonia, the news of which event had reached Athens before the Dionysia of 406, in Elaphabolion, the 9th Athenian month, ca. March 406.) CHARACTERS: AGAVE, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and mother of Pentheus CADMUS, former king of Thebes in Boeotia CHORUS, of women, `Bacchantes' (Maenads), from Lydia in Asia Minor DIONYSUS the god, leader of the Chorus of Bacchae, the `Stranger' PENTHEUS his first-cousin, present King of Thebes, son of Echion and Agave; another first-cousin was apparently Labdacus, the grandfather of Oedipus; his (putative) grandchildren were Creon and Jocasta. TEIRESIAS the famous seer of Thebes (also a character in Oedipus Tyrannos and the Odyssey) PROLOGUE DIONYSUS (the Protagonist) PARODOS ENTRY OF THE CHORUS: (a) Prelude 64-71 (b) Hymn 72-134 (`ode' 2 strophes) (c) Epode 135-169 FIRST EPISODE (Scene I) FIRST STASIMON (Choral Interlude I) CHORUS, commenting on Scene I: the denunciation of Pentheus' hybris; desire of the Chorus to escape to some land where their religion is acceptable to people (as it is not to Pentheus).

18. The Internet Classics Archive | Hippolytus By Euripides Complete text of the play by euripides. http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/hippolytus.html

Home Browse and Comment Search ... Help Hippolytus By Euripides Commentary: Several comments have been posted about Hippolytus Download: A 69k text-only version is available for download Hippolytus By Euripides Written 428 B.C.E Translated by E. P. Coleridge Dramatis Personae APHRODITE HIPPOLYTUS, bastard son of THESEUS ATTENDANTS OF HIPPOLYTUS CHORUS OF TROEZENIAN WOMEN NURSE OF PHAEDRA PHAEDRA, wife of THESEUS THESEUS MESSENGER Scene Before the royal palace at Troezen. There is a statue of APHRODITE on one side; on the other, a statue of ARTEMIS. There is an altar before each image. The goddess APHRODITE appears alone. APHRODITE Wide o'er man my realm extends, and proud the name that I, the goddess Cypris, bear, both in heaven's courts and 'mongst all those who dwell within the limits of the sea and the bounds of Atlas, beholding the sun-god's light; those that respect my power I advance to honour, but bring to ruin all who vaunt themselves at me. For even in the race of gods this feeling finds a home, even pleasure at the honour men pay them. And the truth of this I soon will show; for that son of Theseus, born of the

19. Euripides - LoveToKnow 1911 euripides (480406 B.C.), the great Greek dramatic poet, was born in 480 B.C., on the very day, according to the legend, of the Greek victory at Salamis, where his Athenian http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Euripides

Euripides From LoveToKnow 1911 EURIPIDES (480-406 B.C.), the great Greek dramatic poet, was born in 480 B.C., on the very day, according to the legend, of the Greek victory at Salamis , where his Athenian parents had taken refuge; and a whimsical fancy has even suggested that his name - son of Euripus - was meant to commemorate the first check of the Persian fleet at Artemisium. His father Mnesarchus was at least able to give him a liberal education; it was a favourite taunt with the comic poets that his mother Clito had been a herb -seller - a quaint instance of the tone which public satire could then adopt with plausible effect. At first he was intended, we are told, for the profession of an athlete , - a calling of which he has recorded his opinion with something like the courage of Xenophanes . He seems also to have essayed painting ; but at five-and-twenty he brought out his first play, the Peliades, and thenceforth he was a tragic poet. At thirtynine he gained the first prize, and in his career of about fifty years he gained it only five times in all. This fact is perfectly consistent with his unquestionably great and growing popularity in his own day. Throughout life he had to compete with Sophocles , and with other poets who represented tragedy of the type consecrated by tradition. The hostile criticism of

20. Euripides - Wikinfo euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles; he was the youngest of the three and was born c. 480 BC. http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Euripides

Euripides From Wikinfo Jump to: navigation search Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens , along with Aeschylus and Sophocles ; he was the youngest of the three and was born c. 480 BC . His mother's name was Cleito, and his father's either Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides. There is a tradition that states Cleito earned an income by selling herbs in the marketplace; Aristophanes found this to be a source of amusement and used it in many comedies. However, there is significant evidence which leads most to believe that Euripides' family was quite comfortable financially, and wouldn't have needed such a source of income. According to ancient sources, he wrote over 90 plays, 19 of which are extant, although it is widely believed by scholars that the play Rhesus was actually written by someone else. Fragments of most of the other plays survive, some of them substantial. The number of Euripides' plays that have survived is more than that of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to the chance preservation of a manuscript that was likely part of a complete collection of his works. The record of Euripides' public life, other than his involvement in dramatic competitions, is almost non-existent. There is reason to believe that he travelled to

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