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Euripides was one of the three great Greek tragic poets of ancient times, along with Esquilo and Sophocles. He was born in Salamina around 480 BC and wrote about 90 works, of which 19 have survived to this day.

7 Works

Works

Cover of Electra by Eurípides -
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Electra

After killing her husband, Agamenon, Clitestra gives his daughter Electra to a peasant to prevent her from having noble offspring entitled to claim the throne. Electra lives with the peasant, but does not maintain relations with him, who is an honest man and does not believe he has the right to defile a woman of noble crib.

Cover of Heracles by Eurípides -
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Heracles

In tradition, Heracles commits the crime of being a prisoner of madness, and then they begin their work in atonement, but Euripides invests order in tragedy, and it is after the work that Heracles kills his family. In this tragedy, Heracles appears more humanized, and Zeus appears as cruel and ungrateful.

Cover of Faetonte by Eurípides -
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Faetonte

Lost tragedy written by the Athenian playwright Euripides, produced for the first time around 420 a. C. who covered the myth of Faethon, the mortal young man who asked his father, the sun god Helios, to drive his solar car for one day.

Cover of Hécuba by Eurípides -
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Hécuba

After the fall of Troy, the Greek army is heading for the Quersoneso Tracio, along with the Trojan captives, among whom is Hécuba. The Greeks stop there to honor the tomb of their hero Achilles, and the spectre of him demands that they sacrifice on their grave Polixena, one of the daughters of Hecuba.

Cover of Hypsyphilic by Eurípides -
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Hypsyphilic

Hypsipile is a partially preserved tragedy of Euripides, over the legend of Queen Hypsipile of Lemnos, daughter of King Thoas.

Cover of Hypólito by Eurípides -
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Hypólito

It shows the terrible passion of a woman in love and the almost sick firmness of a perfect boy. Fedra wishes her stepson Hipólito, casto and adept to the goddess Artemis, who rejects her. In a letter to Teseo, her husband, Fedra accused Hipólito of seducing her, an accusation that will have serious consequences.

Cover of Phenicides by Eurípides -
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Phenicides

Phoenicias is a tragedy of Euripides dated around 410 a. C. The plot of the work is based on a part of the Tebano Cycle, and has a clear precedent in the tragedy of Esquilo The Seven against Tebas.

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