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Euripides
[ yoo-rip-i-deez, yuh- ]
noun
- c480–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.
Euripides
/ jʊˈrɪpɪˌdiːz /
noun
- Euripides?480 bc406 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?480–406 bc , Greek tragic dramatist. His plays, 18 of which are extant, include Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigeneia in Aulis, and Bacchae
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Other Words From
- Eu·ripi·dean adjective
Example Sentences
That is, we’re using the lens of Euripides’ take on unimaginably distant stories of long ago to help us understand our present.
Papa, I did not think Euripides would hurt him—he knows it all so well, and he said he could not read anything else.
This maxim is cruel and fatal, but it is not ridiculous; nor would it have been in any way scoffed at in the time of Euripides.
Nevertheless, Euripides has beauties, and Sophocles still more; but they have much greater defects.
His "Antigone" was written when he was forty-five, and when Euripides had already gained a prize.
Meanwhile he, Lancaster, had his Euripides and Goethe and whatever else he liked, or knew where to borrow it.
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