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Euripides, born circa 480 BC on Salamis Island, is one of the three most renowned playwrights of the Athenian tragedy, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. He was a tragic writer who revolutionized the portrayal of conventional mythological characters, presenting them in a realistic light as ordinary men and women. This pioneering approach, focusing on the character's inner world and their psychological motivations, set him apart from his contemporaries and significantly influenced the drama. Despite his father's initial aspirations for him to become a sportsperson or an oracle, Euripides 'destiny was to excel in the realm of drama.

Euripides' early education, which included painting and philosophy from the teachers Prodicus and Anaxagoras, greatly influenced his writing. Despite his two disastrous marriages, Euripides had three sons and dedicated most of his time to solitude and writing in a cave at Salamis, where he built an impressive library. His plays often challenged societal norms and conventional wisdom, a characteristic that both endeared him to some and provoked the ire o

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Historians posit that Euripides, the youngest of the three great tragedians, was born in Salamis between 485 and 480 B.C.E. During his lifetime, the Persian Wars ended, ushering in a period of prosperity and cultural exploration in Athens. Of the art forms that flourished during this era, drama was by many measures the most distinctive and influential. Among Euripides’ contemporaries were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes, and these four men dominated the Athenian stage throughout the fifth century B.C.E. Though scholars know little about the life of Euripides since most sources are based on legend, there are more extant Euripidean dramas than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles combined. In his own lifetime, however, Euripides was the least successful of his contemporaries, winning the competition at the City Dionysia only four times.

Though his plays sometimes suffer from weak structure and wandering focus, he was the most innovative of the tragedians and reshaped the formal structure of Greek tragedy by

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Euripides

Euripides was the youngest of the three principal fifth-century tragic poets. From shortly after his death his plays were the most popular of any tragic poet and were repeatedly reperformed throughout antiquity wherever there were theaters. Aristotle seems to have regarded him as a close second to Sophocles and cites him again and again as a model for tragic writers, as well as occasionally criticizing him. He does not seem to have been nearly so successful during his lifetime, however, winning the first prize only five times in some twenty-two appearances in the tragic competitions. (One of these was for a posthumous first performance of plays left behind at his death.) Comic poets such as Aristophanes frequently parodied or otherwise made fun of him, sometimes in a friendly and appreciative spirit, sometimes in an (apparently) hostile one. It can be shown that this comic portrait is the head and font of most of the biographical tradition about Euripides. The tradition has recently been shown to be highly unreliable (see the work of M. Lefkowitz and M. Heath, cited be