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Bust of Euripides, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican
Bust of Euripides, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Euripides

c. 480–406 BC · Tragedian

The most questioning of the three great tragedians, he put women, slaves and doubtful gods at the centre of his plays. More of his work survives than of Aeschylus and Sophocles together.

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19 works

Nineteen plays, from Medea to the Bacchae, in Greek beside English.

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