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Euripides

Euripides was an ancient Athenian tragedian whose plays explored human psychology, passion, war, and the tensions between divine power and social order. Best known for Medea, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae, he wrote about ninety plays, of which eighteen or nineteen survive, making him one of Greek tragedy’s most influential dramatists.

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Euripides was born around 480 BCE, probably on Salamis or in nearby Attica, at the moment classical Athens was defining itself in the aftermath of the Persian Wars. Ancient testimony about his family and education is uneven, but he appears to have come of age within a city increasingly shaped by rhetoric, philosophy, and democratic argument. Unlike Aeschylus, whose drama often emphasized heroic scale, or Sophocles, whose tragedies are marked by formal balance, Euripides developed a sharper interest in ambiguity, private motive, and emotional contradiction. Ancient tradition also presents him as unusually bookish and somewhat solitary, a fitting image for a playwright so attentive to thought as well as action.

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Wherefore whoso is wise in his generation ought never to have his children taught to be too clever; for besides the reputation they get for idleness, they purchase bitter odium from the citizens
-Medea
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May he perish and find no favour, whoso hath not in him honour for his friends, freely unlocking his heart to them. Never shall he be friend of mine
-Medea
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Fie upon thee! man needs should have some certain test set up to try his friends, some touchstone of their hearts, to know each friend whether he be true or false; all men should have two voices, one the voice of honesty, expediency's the other, so would honesty confute its knavish opposite, and then we could not be deceived
-Hippolytus
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I know not how to call happy any child of man; for that which was first has turned and now is last
-Hippolytus
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A fool is he who sacks the towns of men, with shrines and tombs, the dead man's hallowed home, for at the last he makes a desert round himself, and dies
-The Trojan Women
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Foolish mortal he! who thinks his luck secure and so rejoices; for fortune, like a madman in her moods, springs towards this man, then towards that; and none ever experiences the same unchanging luck
-The Trojan Women
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Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart
-Hecuba
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For 'tis ever a good man's duty to succour the right, and to punish evil-doers wherever found
-Hecuba
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The end of all unbridled speech and lawless senselessness is misery; but the life of calm repose and the rule of reason abide unshaken and support the home; for far away in heaven though they dwell, the powers divine behold man's state
-The Bacchantes
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True wisdom is to keep the heart and soul aloof from over-subtle wits. That which the less enlightened crowd approves and practises, will I accept
-The Bacchantes

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"Euripides was the last of classical Athens's three great tragic dramatists"

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"Euripides, though he but indifferently disposes the other parts, seems notwithstanding the most tragic of the poets"

Aristotle ((

"Euripides comes the closest of the three great Greek dramatists to sharing our contemporary view of right and wrong"

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"Euripides was one of the greatest authors of Greek tragedy"

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"Euripides is the saddest of the poets and for that very reason not the most tragic"

Edith Hamilton ((

"I represent people as they should be; Euripides as they are"

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"Euripides gave prominent roles to intelligent female characters and included significant parts for more ordinary citizens in his works"

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"Euripides is a figure of high significance in the history of humanity"

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