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The Tragedies of Euripides

The Tragedies of Euripides

Buckley, Theodore Alois
Buckley, Theodore Alois
Euripides

Paperback

Series: The Greek Tragedies of Euripides

Ancient GreecePlays

ISBN10: 1721944532
ISBN13: 9781721944538
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 26 2018
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.61
Height: 0.66 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Tragedies of Euripides, Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom a significant number of plays have survived. Euripides first competed in the City Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival, in 455 BC, one year after the death of Aeschylus, and it was not until 441 BC that he won a first prize. His final competition in Athens was in 408 BC. The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis were performed after his death in 405 BC and first prize was awarded posthumously. Altogether his plays won first prize only five times. His plays and those of Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate a difference in outlook between the three men-a generation gap probably due to the Sophistic enlightenment in the middle decades of the 5th century: Aeschylus still looked back to the archaic period, Sophocles was in transition between periods, and Euripides was fully imbued with the new spirit of the classical age.

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