7 Plays: Andromache / Hecuba / Helen / Ion / Rhesus / Suppliant Women / Trojan Women
by Euripides
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Edition: // Descr: 450 p. 18.5 cm. // Series: The Modern Library of the World's Best Books Call No. { 882 E7 32 } Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. // //
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Euripides was born in Attica, Greece probably in 480 B.C. He was the youngest of the three principal fifth-century tragic poets. In his youth he cultivated gymnastic pursuits and studied philosophy and rhetoric. Soon after he received recognition for a play that he had written, Euripides left Athens for the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia. show more Fragments of about fifty-five plays survive. Among his best-known plays are Alcestis, Medea and Philoctetes, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Trojan Women, and Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia. He died in Athens in 406 B.C. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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