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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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Euripides canonical	50
tragedies of Euripides	2
Euripidean corpus	1
Euripides (indirectly, in lost or fragmentary plays)	1
works of Euripides	1

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 ⓘ

Referenced by (55)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Attic Greek → usedBy → Euripides ⓘ

Classical Athens → notablePlaywright → Euripides ⓘ

Greek Antiquity → hasNotablePlaywright → Euripides ⓘ

Anaxagoras → influenced → Euripides ⓘ

Hesiod → influenced → Euripides ⓘ

Ancient Greek → notableWork → Euripides ⓘ

this entity surface form: tragedies of Euripides

Classical Greece → hasNotablePlaywright → Euripides ⓘ

Sophocles → sharesGroupWith → Euripides ⓘ

Euripides → name → Euripides self-link ⓘ

Aeschylus → influenced → Euripides ⓘ

Works of Hesiod → usedAsSourceBy → Euripides ⓘ

Classical period → hasMajorFigure → Euripides ⓘ

Age of Pericles → hasAssociatedPerson → Euripides ⓘ

Loeb Classical Library → includesAuthor → Euripides ⓘ

Greco-Roman mythology → hasSource → Euripides ⓘ

this entity surface form: tragedies of Euripides

Bacchae → author → Euripides ⓘ

Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) → author → Euripides ⓘ

subject surface form: Iphigenia in Aulis

Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) → partOf → Euripides ⓘ

subject surface form: Iphigenia in Aulis

this entity surface form: Euripidean corpus

Trojan Women (Euripides) → author → Euripides ⓘ

subject surface form: Trojan Women

Ismene → sourceAuthor → Euripides ⓘ

this entity surface form: Euripides (indirectly, in lost or fragmentary plays)

Jean Racine → influencedBy → Euripides ⓘ

Theatre of Dionysus → notablePlaywrightsPerformed → Euripides ⓘ

Archelaus I of Macedon → patronOf → Euripides ⓘ

Macaria → associatedWith → Euripides ⓘ

The Fragility of Goodness → examinesWorkOf → Euripides ⓘ

Hecuba (Euripides) → author → Euripides ⓘ

The Apotheosis of Homer → depicts → Euripides ⓘ

Tyndareus → appearsIn → Euripides ⓘ

this entity surface form: works of Euripides

Ino → mentionedBy → Euripides ⓘ

Alcestis by Euripides → author → Euripides ⓘ

subject surface form: Alcestis

Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck) → basedOnAuthor → Euripides ⓘ

Greek tragedy → majorPlaywright → Euripides ⓘ

Electra (Euripides) → author → Euripides ⓘ

Iphigenia → portrayedInWorkBy → Euripides ⓘ

Michael Cacoyannis → adaptedWorkOf → Euripides ⓘ

Classical antiquity → hasKeyLiteraryFigure → Euripides ⓘ

Helen of Troy in The Trojan Women → appearsInWorkBy → Euripides ⓘ

Hippolytus → author → Euripides ⓘ

Andromache → author → Euripides ⓘ

subject surface form: Andromache (play)

Ancient Greek literary criticism → hasNotableSubject → Euripides ⓘ

Iphigenia in Tauris → author → Euripides ⓘ

Greek Theatre of Syracuse → associatedWith → Euripides ⓘ

Troades → influencedBy → Euripides ⓘ

The Frogs → featuresCharacter → Euripides ⓘ

polis of Athens → notableCitizen → Euripides ⓘ

Pentheus → appearsInWorkBy → Euripides ⓘ

Euripides’ play "Ion" → author → Euripides ⓘ

subject surface form: Ion (play)

Athenians → notableDramatists → Euripides ⓘ

Creusa → authorOfWorkAppearingIn → Euripides ⓘ

Creusa → sourceAuthor → Euripides ⓘ