biography
pronunciation:
[yuripideez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.480–406 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek tragic playwright, born in Athens, Greece. He abandoned painting for literature, writing about 80 dramas, of which 19 survive, such as Alcestis (438 BC), Medea (431 BC), Orestes (408 BC), and Electra (417 BC). The Bacchae (c.405 BC) and Iphigenia in Aulis (c.414–412 BC) were put on the Athenian stage only after the author's death, when his work became very popular. He died at the court of Archelaus, King of Macedonia. |
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