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Euripides
Euripides , 480 or 485-406 BC, Greek tragic dramatist, ranking with Aeschylus and Sophocles . Born in Attica, he lived in Athens most of his life, though he spent much time on Salamis. He died in Macedonia, at the court of King Archelaus. He wrote perhaps 92 plays (the first produced in 455); dur... Read more
Hermione
Hermione , in Greek mythology, the only daughter of Helen and Menelaus . When Helen eloped with Paris, Hermione was abandoned to the care of Clytemnestra. She later married Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. In Euripides' Andromache, she is carried off by Orestes who marries her after he has c... Read more
Electra
Electra , in Greek mythology. 1 Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. After her mother and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon, Electra, eager for revenge, longed only for the return of her brother, Orestes . The reunion and vengeance of the brother and sister were dramatized by the three great traged... Read more
Andromache
Andromache , in Greek mythology, Trojan princess, wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax. After the Trojan War she was carried away by Neoptolemus , whose father, Achilles, had slain her husband. She later married Hector's brother Helenus and they jointly ruled Epirus. She is a noble figure in the ... Read more
Aristophanes
Aristophanes , c.448 BC-c.388 BC, Greek playwright, Athenian comic poet, greatest of the ancient writers of comedy . His plays, the only full extant samples of the Greek Old Comedy, mix political, social, and literary satire. The direct attack on persons, the severity of invective, and the burlesqu... Read more
Creon
Creon , a name given to several minor legendary Greek kings. In the legend of Oedipus, Creon is the brother of Jocasta and after the death of Oedipus' sons becomes king of Thebes. In Euripides' Medea, Creon is the king of Corinth and is murdered by the vengeful Medea. Apollodorus portrays him as a... Read more
Lycurgus
Lycurgus c.396-c.325 BC, one of the Ten Attic Orators of the Alexandrian canon; pupil of Isocrates. A capable and honored public official, he administered the state finances from 338 to 326 BC and led (with Demosthenes) the anti-Macedonian party. One of his official acts ordered the editing and pre... Read more
Neoptolemus
Neoptolemus , in Greek legend, son of Achilles. In the Trojan War he proved himself brave but cruel. He killed Priam at the altar of Zeus and threw Astyanax, son of Hector, from the wall of Troy. After the war he took Andromache as a slave to his kingdom in Epirus. Later he abandoned her for Hermion... Read more
Alcestis
Alcestis , in Greek mythology, daughter of Pelias . She was won in marriage by Admetus, who fulfilled her father's condition that her suitor come for her in a chariot pulled by a wild boar and a lion. So great was her devotion that when Admetus was granted life by the gods if someone would die in h... Read more
Hecuba
Hecuba , in Greek mythology, chief wife of Priam, king of Troy. Hecuba bore to Priam 19 children, including Paris, Hector, Troilus, Cassandra, and others who were prominent in the Trojan War. To save Polydorus, her youngest son, from the Greeks, Hecuba sent him to Polymnestor, king of Thrace. After ... Read more

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Euripides
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Euripides Euripides (480-406 B.C.) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called...certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times. Euripides was the son of Mnesarchus. The family owned property on the island...
Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides, by R. Browning , published 1871...that Balaustion can recite a play by Euripides . The play is Alcestis , a performance...Browning is thus able to represent Euripides' play in his own interpretation, within...
Gilbert Murray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...x2014;including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes—and in...Hellenism and the Modern World (1953). His Euripides and His Age (1918) is considered on...the subject down to earth, and made Euripides a compelling flesh-and-blood figure...
Aristophanes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...sophistry and Socrates alike, satirized Euripides' art as degenerate, and deplored the...especially astute in his parodies of Euripides. Eleven of his plays survive: The Acharnians...in which the women conspire to ruin Euripides because of his misogyny; The Frogs...
Western drama
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Sophocles' format being continued by Euripides , the last of the great classical Greek...from the time of Aeschylus to that of Euripides, there was a marked tendency toward realism. Euripides' characters are ordinary, not godlike...
Sophocles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...younger contemporary of Aeschylus and older contemporary of Euripides , b. Colonus, near Athens. A man of wealth, charm, and...said that Aeschylus composed correctly without knowing it; Euripides portrayed people as they were; and he painted people as they...
Minotis, Alexis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...New York début as Orestes in a Greek production of Euripides' Electra . Returning to Greece, he played a wide range of...Paxinou in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex , Talthybius to her Hecuba in Euripides' Hecuba , and Oedipus again in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus...
Chorus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...comment on it, as in the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles ; Euripides made less use of the traditional chorus, concentrating some...was the speaker of an introductory prologue, a legacy from Euripides handed down via the Roman closet dramas of Seneca . He spoke...
Jeffers, (John) Robinson
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...the Sun (1941); Hungerfield and Other Poems (1945), including a version of Euripides' Hippolytus; Medea (1946), including a free adaptation of Euripides' drama to fit the modern theater; The Double Axe (1948); and a posthumous collection...
Quintus Ennius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...they can at times rise to a rugged and powerful dignity. Euripides was a favorite model for Ennius in his adaptations of Greek...of plays known to be his, 3 are from extant tragedies of Euripides. Fragments of his tragedies number about 400 lines. As a...

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Euripides
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Euripides (480– c. 406 bc), Greek dramatist. His nineteen surviving plays show important innovations in the handling of traditional...
Papas, Irene
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Electra, as the proud, implacable face emerges from encroaching shadows, it becomes impossible to imagine anyone else as Euripides's heroine. Erect, immutably dignified, dark eyes burning fiercely beneath heavy black brows, Irene Papas visibly embodies...
Tragedy and Comedy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...of tragedies were Aeschylus (525 – 456 b.c.e.), Sophocles (c. 496 – 406 b.c.e.), and Euripides (c. 484 – 406 b.c.e.). Comedy was divided into old, middle, and new. Aristophanes (c. 450 –...
Education: Europe
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...the secondary school the student read the classics of Greek literature, especially the poet Homer and the tragic dramatist Euripides (c. 484 – 406 b.c.e.). He also read in whole or part other authors in the Greek literary tradition, such...
Ascension
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...T.: II Kings 2:11] Helen of Troy soars away into the air from the cave in which Menelaus left her. [Gk. Drama: Euripides Helen ] Jesus Christ 40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1 – 11] Marguerite...
Iphigénie en Aulide
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...xE9;nie en Aulide ( Iphigenia in Aulis ) . Opera in 3 acts by Gluck to lib. by Du Roullet after Racine's play based on Euripides. Prod. Paris 1774; Oxford 1933; Philadelphia 1935. Gluck used three numbers from Don Juan in this score. Operas on same...
Alceste
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Alceste (Gr. Alkestis ). Opera in 3 acts by Gluck, lib. by Calzabigi, after Euripides. Prod. Vienna 1767, London 1795; Wellesley Coll., Mass., 1938, NY Met 1941 (in Fr.). Fr. version rev. by Gluck with...
Alkestis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Alkestis. Gr. tragedy by Euripides which has been the basis of many operas. See Alceste .
Porson, Richard
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...unwilling to take holy orders, he lost the fellowship, but five months later was elected to the regius chair of Greek. He did not lecture, rarely visited the university, but studied in London, producing a celebrated edition of Euripides.
Agave
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Agave in classical mythology, the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and mother of Pentheus. In Euripides' The Bacchae , she refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Dionysus , and as punishment is driven mad as a bacchant ; in their...

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ISLAND CAVE BELIEVED TO BE SITE WHERE EURIPIDES PENNED PLAY.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 1/31/1998; 646 words ; ...Archaeologists have found the hideaway used by Euripides to write at least one of his timeless...letters of Euripedes' name in Greek. Euripides, the iconoclastic poet believed to have...contemporary. Lolos thinks at least one of Euripides' plays, ``Hippolytus,'' was inspired...
GOETHE'S IPHIGENIE AND EURIPIDES' IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...mutatis mutandis, contemporary views of Euripides himself. Certainly, we can deduce from...Athenian minds in the fifth century BC Euripides was too modern and even, if we translate...and imaginative-in which Goethe made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris his own. Clearly...
Euripides reimagined: A tragedy and a romp
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/3/2010; ; 700+ words ; ...the name of the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides, and most people will not think "Thelma...that film when discussing "Orestes," Euripides' 5th century B.C. drama about murder...translation-with- liberties of the Euripides original. Posner stages this Folger...
Trojan harlot? I think not Euripides' play presents Helen as a model of wifely fidelity
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/2/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Frank McGuinness, whose adaptation of Euripides' Helen opens at Shakespeare's Globe today. 'With this play, Euripides turned the traditional myth of Helen...one of Athens' great tragedians, Euripides was also - as the plot of Helen proves...
Silent Witness: Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides By SUSANNA PHILLIPPO. Oxford: Legenda...creative writers of his time), used Euripides more than Aeschylus or Sophocles as source...Racine's non-verbal annotations of Euripides and his own tragedies. She stresses...
Dark comedy.(Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes)(Euripides. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; David Kovacs, editor Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women...the late, bleak, crazy plays of Euripides: Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark...editing all six volumes of the new Loeb Euripides. The final two volumes contain Helen...
Euripides With a Beat: `Orestes' as Rock Opera
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/25/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...And that can mean only one thing: Euripides is gonna rock. In recent seasons, the...Broadway. Phone (312) 404-0048. Euripides was the youngest, and in many ways the...dramatist Mee has stuck closely to the Euripides original, he also has built a 20th century...
Apollo's oracle in Euripides' Ion ambiguous identities in fifth-century Athens.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...fifth century BC. (1) It looks at Euripides' Ion as an example of an author who...conventions of the oracular discourse Euripides unmasks the underlying principles that...ideological contradictions as human society: Euripides' account depicts religion as both a...
Euripides is given a kicking ; THEATRE
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/12/2009; ; 580 words ; ...Katie Mitchell summoned up the spirit of Euripides's Trojan Women, with captive females...which Frances Viner's adaptation of Euripides's most influential play is filtered...supposed to help you to know yourself. Yet Euripides called for just such a balance between...
GREEK DIG PINPOINTS PROBABLE CAVE USED BY AUTHOR EURIPIDES.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 1/19/1997; 608 words ; ...the island cave where the playwright Euripides probably wrote some of his ancient masterpieces...week. Historical evidence has indicated Euripides, the latest of three great Athenian...south of the island. ``The pot with Euripides's name is a unique find which adds...