![]() ![]() Like all the major playwrights of his time, Euripides competed in the annual Athenian dramatic festivals held in honor of the god Dionysus. ![]() Of the three most famous tragic dramatists to come out of ancient Greece - the others being Aeschylus and Sophocles - Euripides was the last and perhaps the most influential. Over his career as a poet and dramatist, Euripides wrote approximately 90 plays, 19 of which have survived through manuscripts. He reportedly married a woman named Melito and had three sons. His family was most likely a prosperous one his father was named Mnesarchus or Mnesarchide, and his mother was named Cleito. He was born in Athens, Greece, around 485 B.C. Very few facts of Euripides' life are known for certain. His most famous tragedies, which reinvent Greek myths and probe the darker side of human nature, include Medea, The Bacchae, Hippolytus, Alcestis and The Trojan Women. Euripides was one of the best-known and most influential dramatists in classical Greek culture of his 90 plays, 19 have survived. ![]()
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