EURIPIDES
\jˈuːɹɪpˌa͡ɪdz], \jˈuːɹɪpˌaɪdz], \j_ˈuː_ɹ_ɪ_p_ˌaɪ_d_z]\
Definitions of EURIPIDES
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
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By Princeton University
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A great Greek tragic poet; born at Athens about 480 B.C.; died about 406. His dramas, according to the ancient Alexandrine grammatists, numbered 92. Of these, 19 have come down to our time: namely, the tragedies "Alcestis", "Andromache", "Bacchae", "Hecube", "Helena", "Electra", "Heraclidae", "The Mad Hercules", "The Suppliants", "Hippolytus", "Iphigenia at Tauris", "Iphigenia at Aulis", "Ion", "Medea", "Orestes", "Rhesus" (not genuine, however), "The Trojan Women", "The Phoenissae"; finally the satyrplay "Cyclops". Of his other plays we have only short fragments.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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