Born about 480 B.C., somewhere in the vicinity of Athens, Euripides, the son of Mnesarchides, was destined from the beginning to be a misunderstood poet. He presented his first tragedy at the Great Dionysia in 455 B.C., but did not win his first victory until 441. He won only five awards, and the fifth award was not awarded until after his death. This lack of recognition might seem a bit odd when one considers that Euripides wrote about 92 plays and was compared, even during his lifetime, to the likes of Aeschylus and Sophocles. But Euripides was ignored by the judges of the Greek festival because he did not cater to the the fancies of the Athenian crowd. He did not approve of their superstitions and refused to condone their moral hypocrisy. He was a pacifist, a free thinker, and a humanitarian in an age when such qualities were increasingly overshadowed by intolerance and violence. Perhaps that is why he chose to live much of his life alone with his books in a cave on the island of Salamis. Euripides was exposed early to the religion he would so stubbornly question as an adult. As a child, he served as cup-bearer to the guild of dancers who performed at the altar of Apollo. The son of an influential family, he was also exposed to the great thinkers of the day--including Anaxagoras, the Ionian philosopher who maintained that the sun was not a golden chariot steered across the sky by some elusive god, but rather a fiery mass of earth or stone. The radical philosopher had a profound effect on the young poet, and left with him a passionate love of truth and a curious,
Euripides was born on September 23, 480 BC.
Phrynicus, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Euripides was a Greek playwright mostly known for being the first man to use women in his plays
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Euripides' play Hippolytus.
Euripides Ramos died in 1986.
Euripides was born on September 23, 480 BC.
Euripides died around 406 BC (the exact date is unknown) in Macedonia.
The names of the parents to Euripides were Mnesarchus and Cleito. Euripides was an ancient writer of Greek tragedy who wrote about women and mythological themes.
Phrynicus, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
euripides work can be seen in the apollo theatre b****
i'm pretty sure they are Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles
Euripides is the correct answer.
Euripides Ramos was born in 1906, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Homer is the author who wrote about the Trojan War in his epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.