EURIPIDES Definition & Meaning

Euripides

[ yoo-rip-i-deez, yuh- ]

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noun

c480–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.

Euripides

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noun

Euripides?480 bc406 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?480–406 bc , Greek tragic dramatist. His plays, 18 of which are extant, include Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigeneia in Aulis, and Bacchae

Euripides

An ancient Greek dramatist. He was the author of numerous tragedies , including the Bacchae , Medea , and The Trojan Women . He often used the device of deus ex machina (literally, “a god from the machine”) to resolve his plots .

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Notes

Today, a “deus ex machina” refers to any person or event that provides a sudden, unexpected solution to a problem or situation.

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Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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Jackson is part of a long tradition of dissenting, critical-minded dramatists, dating back to Euripides and extending through George Bernard Shaw to the present.

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Perhaps Aeschylus and Euripides and the other big winners of fifth century B.C.

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Euripides first put Medea on the stage in ancient Greece, and she’s never left it.

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He studied Greek and quoted freely from Homer and Euripides.

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