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- Greek dramatist who brought new psychological depth to Greek tragedy. He wrote more than 90 plays, although only 18, including Medea, Hippolytus, and The Trojan Women, survive in complete form.
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Greek tragedian (c. 480–406 BCE); Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. - proper noun A male
given name , mostly representing a transliteraion of the modern GreekΕυριπίδης .
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- noun one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC)
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Examples
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Euripides: see W. Nestle, _Euripides_ (Stuttgart, 1901) pp. 51-152.
Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Ingeborg Andersen 1897
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Aeschylean tragedy to Platonic dialogue, via Euripides, is described by Nietzsche both as decline from a supreme moment of human expression, and as the rescuing of that moment for modern discourses supposed to be non-dramatic.
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And even the loose adaptation of events reminds me of Greek tragedy, in which an Electra, Iphigeneia or Helen in the hands of a Euripides is portrayed sometimes almost surrealistically, or at least far differently from the main narrative of the Trojan War, followed by the more standard Aeschylus, Sophocles and others.
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And even the loose adaptation of events reminds me of Greek tragedy, in which an Electra, Iphigeneia or Helen in the hands of a Euripides is portrayed sometimes almost surrealistically, or at least far differently from the main narrative of the Trojan War, followed by the more standard Aeschylus, Sophocles and others.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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How can they call Euripides [Greek text], {87b} putting a few passages of his against whole Dramas of the other, who also can show sentence for sentence more moving than any Euripides wrote.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846
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What in the name of Euripides is going on with the Greek, or seeing it's the Lib Dems, Geek Tragedy that's sending bolts of lightning crackling across the Birmingham conference hall?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Judith Woods 2011
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What in the name of Euripides is going on with the Greek, or seeing it's the Lib Dems, Geek Tragedy that's sending bolts of lightning crackling across the Birmingham conference hall?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Judith Woods 2011
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Aristotle bestows on him many a severe censure, and when he calls Euripides "the most tragic poet," he by no means ascribes to him the greatest perfection in the tragic art in general, but merely alludes to the moving effect which is produced by unfortunate catastrophes; for he immediately adds, "although he does not well arrange the rest."
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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Alcestis is a princess from Greek mythology, popularized in Euripides’s tragedy of the same name.
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Alcestis is a princess from Greek mythology, popularized in Euripides’s tragedy of the same name.
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