EVRIPIDES

BIOGRAPHY

He was born in 480 BC in Halandri, Athens on the day of the battleship of Salamina. His parents were very poor but he was well educated, being a student of Anaxagoras and a close friend to Socrates.He wrote 72 works, 19 of which are saved ( 18 tradgedies and 1 satyric drama: "The Cyclops")

He died violently in 406 in Pella, killed by wild dogs.

His works

1. Rhesus (450 BC)
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2. Alcestis (438 BC)
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3. Medea (431 BC)
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4. The Heracledae (430 BC)
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5. Hippolytos (428 BC)
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6. Hecabe (424 BC)
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7. Andromache (427-424 BC)
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8. The Suppliants (422 BC)
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9. Heracles (422-416 BC)
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10. Helectra (420-410 BC)
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11. The Trojan Women (415 BC)
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12. Helen (412 BC)
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13. Ion (414-412 BC)
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14. Iphigenia in Tauris (413-412 BC)
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15. The Phoenissae (410-409 BC)
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16. Iphigenia in Avlis (410BC)
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17. The Bacchae (410 BC)
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18. The Cyclops (408 BC)
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19. Orestes (408 BC)
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