Euripides

Euripides (* 480 v. Chr. or 485/484 v. Chr. in salamis; † 406 v. Chr. in Pella) is considered as a classical Greek poet.

Euripides

Euripides is the last one of the large Greek tragedy poets, to those beside it Aischylos and Sophokles to be counted. From its about 90 pieces are 18 (and/or. 19) in two groups delivers: In the selected works and in the alphabetical works. First were in the antique one like and were frequently copied; the latters formthe part of an alphabetical complete work, for us only under the letters 'Epsilon “,” Eta “,” Iota “and” Kappa 'remained received.

Euripides led between 455 to 408 v. Chr. regularly in the tragic Agon too Athens Tetralogien on (a tragedy Trilogie and a Satyrspiel of a rather grotesque character). The first specified piece was called “the Peliaden”, with which Euripides the 3. Place occupied. Its first victory falls into the year 441 v. Chr. In the year 428 v. Chr.it triumphed with receives remained “Hippolytos”, which was the treatment some years before of a specified and violently criticized Hippolytos piece. Altogether it triumphed to specified Tetralogie during lifetimes only 4 times and with one posthum, to which the famous piece “The Bakchen “belongs.

Briefly after the Dionysien 408 v. Chr. Euripides of the invitation of the Macedonian king ark Laos I. followed., in whose capital Pella it to beginning of spring 406 v. Chr. deceased.

Was from the large masters of the athenischen tragedy Euripidesthe most problematic and most modern, which brought in refusal and enmity for it.Aristophanes is responsible for a Euripides picture marked by the grotesque distortions of the old persons comedy, which was determining into the modern times.

After its death one soon already recognized thoseparamount meaning Euripides' on, which itself among other things therein it struck down that it was during the entire antique ones the most frequently specified and read Tragiker. Of special importance its influence on the new comedy is, in particular its a general agent Menander.

Works

list of the lost, received or fragmentarily delivered pieces of the Euripides with the delivered or opened performance data.

the delivered tragedy “Rhesos” are from Euripides, but originate from that 4. Century v. Chr.

literature

• Kjeld were called: The tragedies of theEuripides. Beck, Munich 2002. (Zetemata, 114) ISBN 3-406-50310-1
• Kjeld were called: Euripides and its century. Beck, Munich 2004. (Zetemata, 119) ISBN 3-406-51744-7

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Wikiquote: Euripides - quotations

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• works of Euripides as on-line texts in the project Gutenberg DE (with introduction)