Euripides
Euripides ( 485 – 406 BC ),Greek tragedian of whose 92 plays only 19 survive. Ten have survived because they were used in schools c. AD 200 : Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, The Bacchae, and Rhesus. Nine other plays survive in a single manuscript (which also contains the other 10 plays): Electra, Helen, The Children of Heracles, Heracles, The Suppliant Women, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion, and Cyclops. The plays of Euripides are characterized by an ambivalent attitude towards the national religious myths, which he sometimes seems to deploy purely for their dramatic potential. He is also unusually successful in his characterization of ordinary human beings.
Petrarch ranked him next to Homer , and G. ...
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