Facts about Euripides

Summary

Euripides was a famous Poet from Greece, who lived between 480 BC and 406 BC.

Biography

Euripides (or Euripides, Greek: Εὐριπίδης) was the last of the three great tragic poets of ancient Greece, after Aiskhylos and Sophocles.

Euripides came from phyla, a village in Attica, but stayed mainly in Athens. He studied under Protagoras, and Socrates was one of the other students. In 408 or 407 he left Athens for the benefit of the court of Arkelaos, king of Macedonia, where he died.

Euripides' influence has been enormous. He was, however, not representative of a community culture, so one can understand the tragedies of Sophocles and Aiskhylos. On the contrary, he was spokesman for a new era, sofistikken), and was therefore subject to much opposition and proportionality, which is clearly reflected in Aristophanes' comedies. He wrote probably about 90 tragedies and we know the name of about 80 of them. 18 has survived to our days.

In drama competitions that took place during the great Dionysia, which was so important in ancient Greece, Euripides had only four first prizes in his lifetime even though he competed 22 times. The Bacchae and Ifigenia in Aulis received their first award, which were awarded posthumously at initial presentation.

Our collection contains 54 quotes who is written / told by Euripides, under the main topics: Happiness, Forgiveness, Happiness, Wisdom.

Related authors: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Socrates