Euripides

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Ancient Greek tragedian Playwright Poet

Euripides was a classical Athenian tragedian, renowned as one of the three great ancient Greek playwrights whose surviving dramas profoundly shaped Western literature and theater.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
tragedies of Euripides	2

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ancient Greek tragedian ⓘ Playwright ⓘ Poet ⓘ
birthPlace	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece Classical Athens ⓘ Salamis Island ⓘ
citizenship	Athens ⓘ
contemporaryOf	Aeschylus ⓘ Aristophanes ⓘ Sophocles ⓘ
culture	Classical Athenian culture ⓘ
deathPlace	Macedonia (Greece) ⓘ surface form: Macedonia Pella, Greece ⓘ surface form: Pella
educatedIn	Athens ⓘ
ethnicity	Greek ⓘ
genre	Tragedy ⓘ
hasWorkCount	Around 18 surviving complete plays ⓘ
influenced	Roman drama ⓘ Western literature ⓘ Western theatre ⓘ
influencedBy	Aeschylus ⓘ Sophocles ⓘ
knownFor	Innovative use of myth ⓘ Psychological realism in characters ⓘ Use of deus ex machina endings ⓘ Use of strong female characters ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
movement	Classical Greek tragedy ⓘ
name	Euripides self-link ⓘ
notableWork	Alcestis by Euripides ⓘ surface form: Alcestis Andromache ⓘ Electra ⓘ Hecuba (Euripides) ⓘ surface form: Hecuba Helen ⓘ Heracles ⓘ Hippolytus ⓘ Ion ⓘ Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) ⓘ surface form: Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia in Tauris ⓘ Medea ⓘ Orestes ⓘ Bacchae ⓘ surface form: The Bacchae Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ surface form: The Trojan Women
occupation	Dramatist ⓘ Tragedian ⓘ
partOf	Three great tragedians of classical Athens ⓘ
subjectOf	Ancient Greek literary criticism ⓘ Aristophanes ⓘ surface form: Aristophanes’ comedies
tradition	Attic tragedy ⓘ
wroteIn	5th century BC ⓘ

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Bacchae → author → Euripides ⓘ

Age of Pericles → hasAssociatedPerson → Euripides ⓘ

Classical period → hasMajorFigure → Euripides ⓘ

Classical Greece → hasNotablePlaywright → Euripides ⓘ

Greek Antiquity → hasNotablePlaywright → Euripides ⓘ

Greco-Roman mythology → hasSource → Euripides ⓘ

this entity surface form: tragedies of Euripides

Loeb Classical Library → includesAuthor → Euripides ⓘ

Aeschylus → influenced → Euripides ⓘ

Anaxagoras → influenced → Euripides ⓘ

Hesiod → influenced → Euripides ⓘ

Euripides → name → Euripides self-link ⓘ

Classical Athens → notablePlaywright → Euripides ⓘ

Ancient Greek → notableWork → Euripides ⓘ

this entity surface form: tragedies of Euripides

Sophocles → sharesGroupWith → Euripides ⓘ

Works of Hesiod → usedAsSourceBy → Euripides ⓘ

Attic Greek → usedBy → Euripides ⓘ