Euripides

c. 480–406 BCE

Euripides of Athens, the youngest of the three great tragedians, wrote some ninety plays, of which nineteen survive — more than of Aeschylus and Sophocles together. He brought the heroes of myth down to the scale of ordinary men and women, gave their passions and arguments the language of his own day, and let gods and received stories be questioned on the stage: Medea, Hippolytus, the Trojan Women, Electra, Ion, the Bacchae. He died at the court of Archelaus of Macedon.

Works in the library — 19

• Cyclops · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• Alcestis · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• Medea · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• Heracleidae · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• Hippolytus · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• Andromache · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• Hecuba · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• The Suppliants · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• Heracles · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Ion · E. P. Coleridge (1891)ENGRC read →
• The Trojan Women · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Electra · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Iphigenia among the Tauri · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Helen · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• The Phoenician Women · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Orestes · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Bacchae · T. A. Buckley (1850), revised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Iphigenia in Aulis · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →
• Rhesus · E. P. Coleridge (1891), modernised by PerseusENGRC read →