People

Euripides 485–406 B.C.- Athens, Macedonia

Encyclopedia Entries

Columbia Encyclopedia

Wikipedia

---

Questions of 

From Wikipedia:

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles; he was the youngest of the three. According to ancient sources, he wrote over 90 plays, 19 of which are extant, although it is widely believed by scholars that the play Rhesus was actually written by someone else. Fragments of most of the other plays survive, some of them substantial. The number of Euripides' plays that have survived is more than double that of Aeschylus and Sophocles, partly due to the chance preservation of a manuscript that was likely part of a complete collection of his works.

---

Reading

1. Alcestis (438 BC)
2. Andromache
3. The Bacchae (c.404 BC [posthumous], first prize [with Iphigeneia at Aulis])
4. Cyclops
5. Electra
6. Hecuba
7. Helen (probably 412 BC)
8. Heracleidae
9. Heracles
10. Hippolytus (428 BC, first prize)
11. Ion
12. Iphigeneia at Aulis (c.405 BC [posthumous], first prize [with the Bacchae])
13. Iphigeneia in Tauris
14. Medea (431 BC, third prize)
15. Orestes (probably 408 BC)
16. Phoenissae
17. (Rhesus, a spurious play, attributed to Euripides, according to the Loeb Classics editors)
18. Suppliants
19. Trojan Women (415 BC, second prize)

---

Writing available on the net

• Alcestis, translated by Richard Aldington [ read ]
• Andromache, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Electra, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Hecuba, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Helen, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• The Heracleidae, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Heracles, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Hippolytus, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Ion, translated by Robert Potter [ read ]
• Iphigenia At Aulis [ read ]
• Iphigenia In Tauris, translated by Robert Potter [ read ]
• Medea, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Orestes, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• Rhesus [ read ]
• The Bacchantes [ read ]
• The Cyclops, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• The Phoenissae, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• The Suppliants, translated by E. P. Coleridge [ read ]
• The Trojan Women [ read ]

Other links

• Project Gutenberg
• Other etext editions (via Online Books Page)

 

---

Commentaries

Among the many translations of Euripides is The Complete Greek Tragedies, ed. by Richmond Lattimore and David Grene (1956–59).

See studies by G. Murray (1918, 2d ed. repr. 1965), T. B. L. Webster (1967), and A. P. Burnett (1972).

 

---

Quotations