Euripides
noun
c480–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.
Euripidean
-
a word derived from
Euripides.
Example Sentences
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On a bleak set by Madeleine Girling that might be a derelict warehouse in the French Quarter, Williams’s story unspools with Euripidean certainty.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
But when Henze received the draft libretto for a Euripidean opera from the poets W.H.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2018
We don’t feel the Euripidean conflict between civilization and hedonism or government and anarchy so much as that between personal repression and liberation.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2017
Hercules is not the harrowing Euripidean tragedy in which the hero slaughters his family in a fit of insanity, but an amiable comedy for all ages written by Helen Eastman.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2010
Even at the beginning she rebuilds the Euripidean matter.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
