Euripides (/j???r?p?di?z/ or /j???r?p?di?z/; Greek: ?????????) (c. 480 – 406 BCE) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of...that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.He was also unique among the writers of ancient Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women. His conservative male audiences were frequently shocked by the 'heresies' he put into the mouths of characters, such as these words of his heroine Medea:Sooner would I standThree times to face their battles, shield in hand,Than bear one child!His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism, both of them being frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes. Whereas Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence, Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia. Recent scholarship casts doubt on ancient biographies of Euripides. For example, it is possible that he never visited Macedonia at all, or, if he did, he might have been drawn there by King Archelaus with incentives that were also offered to other artists.
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His play 'Iphigenia in Tauris' (414-412 BC) was adapted as a new play by 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe' in 1787, and as an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, with a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard, in 1779.
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His plays include 'Alkestis' (438BC), 'Medea' (431 BC), Hippolytos (428 BC), 'The Troyans' (415 BC), 'Elektra' (413 BC) and 'The Bacchantes' (first played 405 BC).
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Medea
play announced
Troyanas
2015
Documentary original story
A Dionysia
2015
play "Bacchae of Euripides"
Król Roger, Opera in three acts
2015
Video inspired by: "The Bacchae"
National Theatre Live: Medea
2014
play
The Bacchae
2010
Medea
2008
TV Movie after
Cassandra
2008
Short play "The Trojan Women"
Extranjera
2007
story
Dedicated to Jason with Love Medea
2006
Short
The Women of Troy
2006
Video play
Medea
2005
TV Mini-Series play
The Trojan Women
2004
play
The Bacchae
2002
play
Médée
2001
TV Movie based on the play by
Médée
1996
TV Movie play - as Euripide
Ein Traum, was sonst?
1995
text "The Trojan Women"
Backanterna
1993
TV Movie play
Alkestis
1993
TV Movie play
Theatre Night
1990
TV Series play - 1 episode
Medea
1988
TV Movie play
Vakhes
1986
TV Movie play
Medeia
1984
TV Movie play
Medea
1983/I
TV Movie play
Medea
1983/II
TV Movie
Atreides
1979
TV Movie excerpts
Medea
1979
TV Movie play
Kravgi gynaikon
1978
play "Mideia"
Taller de comèdies
1977
TV Series play - 1 episode
Estudio 1
TV Series 1 episode, 1968 writer - 1 episode, 1977
Iphigenia
1977
play "Iphigeneia at Aulis"
Gymnoi sto hioni
1974
play "Hippolytus"
Spiti stous vrahous
1974
play "Hippolytus"
Die Bakchen
1974
TV Movie play
Medéia
1973
TV Movie play
Trójai nök
1973
TV Movie as Euripidész
The Trojan Women
1971
play
Alkeste - Die Bedeutung, Protektion zu haben
1970
Dionysus in '69
1970
play "The Bacchae"
Die Helena des Euripides
1970
TV Movie play
Orestis
1969
play
Medea
1969
play - uncredited
Forgotten Pistolero
1969
play "Orestes" - uncredited
Teatro de siempre
TV Series 3 episodes, 1966 - 1969 play - 1 episode, 1966