Definitions for "Euripides"
Athenian tragic playwright lived from ca. 485 BCE to 406 BCE; Euripides began his career as a tragic playwright in 455 BCE; his extant plays include: Alcestis (438), Medea (431), Children of Heracles (ca. 430), Hippolytus (428, first prize), Andromache (ca. 425), Hecuba (ca. 424), Suppliant Women (ca. 423), Electra (ca. 420), Heracles (ca. 416), Trojan Women (415, second prize), Iphigenia among the Taurians (ca. 414), Ion (ca. 413), Helen (412), Phoenician Women (ca. 410), Orestes (408), Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis (after 406, posthumous first prize), Cyclops (date unknown, possibly ca. 410). Biography of Euripides Netshot: Introduction to Greek Tragedy Euripides' Medea Euripides' Bacchae
ca. 484-406 BCE. Portrayed as the bad boy of Greek tragedy by Aristophanes (in the comedy The Frogs), Euripides was the youngest of the three tragic playwrights whose works survive. Euripides' work is generally considered more brutal and bleak than that of Aeschylus or Sophocles. Some of Euripides' most famous plays include Medea, The Trojan Women, Electra, and The Bacchae. Altogether, nineteen of Euripides' plays are still extant.
one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC)