Euripides
by Euripides
EuripidesGreek drama (Tragedy)great_books_of_the_western_worldPentheus (Greek mythology)Alcestis (Greek mythology)
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In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.
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EuripidesGreek drama (Tragedy)great_books_of_the_western_worldPentheus (Greek mythology)Alcestis (Greek mythology)Dionysus (Greek deity)
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Euripides
480 BCE – 406 BCE
Euripides 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.[1] 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. ([Source][1].) [1]…
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