What is Euripides?
[[File:Seated Euripides Louvre Ma343.jpg|thumb|200px|A statue of Euripides]] '''Euripides''' (c. 480 BC–406 BC) was an [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] writer from [[Classical Athens|Athens]] who wrote about 90 [[Play (theatre)|plays]]. Only 18 of his [[tragedy|tragedies]] have survived complete, more than all other surviving ancient Greek tragedies put together. A nineteenth play, ''Rhesus'' is sometimes thought to be by Euripides, but not all classicists agree on this. Euripides was the last of the three greatest [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] writers of tragedies, the others being [[Aeschylus]] and [[Sophocles]]. == Surviving plays == *''Alcestis'' (439 BC, second prize) *''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'' (431 BC, third prize) *''Heracleidae'' (c. 430 BC) *''Hippolytus'' (428 BC, first prize) *''Andromache'' (c. 425 BC) *''Hecuba'' (c. 424 BC) *''The Suppliants'' (c. 423 BC) *''Electra'' (c. 420 BC) *''Heracles'' (c. 416 BC) *''Trojan Women'' (415 BC, second prize) *''[[Iphigenia|Iphigeneia in Tauris]]'' (c. 414 BC) *''Ion'' (c. 414 BC) *''Helen'' (412 BC) *''[[The Phoenician Women|Phoenician Women]]'' (c. 410 BC) *''Orestes'' (408 BC) *''Bacchae'' and ''Iphigeneia at Aulis'' (405 BC, posthumous) *''Cyclops'' (408 BC) == Related pages == {{wikiquote-en}} {{Commons category|Euripides}} *[[Theatre of Ancient Greece]] {{Ancient Greece: Arts and Culture}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Ancient Greek writers]] [[Category:480s BC births]] [[Category:406 BC deaths]] {{bio-stub}}