- Born
- Died406 BC · Pella-Macedonia, Greece (undisclosed)
- Born on Salamis island around 484 BC, Euripides is considered the first professional writer in Athens. His dramas evolve around human passions and his interest lies in strong feelings of love, hate and revenge. Often also the gods themselves share the same low moral standards as the humans do. In several of his plays women take leading parts, "Medea" is probably the most famous. He also stressed the importance of the dialogue and lessened the the influence of the choir. Of his around 90 plays, 18 plays remain, the rest are lost or only known in fragments.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mattias Thuresson
- His plays include 'Alkestis' (438BC), 'Medea' (431 BC), Hippolytos (428 BC), 'The Troyans' (415 BC), 'Elektra' (413 BC) and 'The Bacchantes' (first played 405 BC).
- His play 'Iphigenia in Tauris' (414-412 BC) was adapted as a new play by 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe' in 1787, and as an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, with a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard, in 1779.
- [on excellence] Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
- Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.
- As long as we exist, death is not here.
- Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but they are not in it.
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