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Definition of Euripides

1. Noun. One of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC).

Definition of Euripides

1. Proper noun. A Greek tragedian (c. 480–406 (B.C.E.)); Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. ¹

2. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek male given name), mostly representing a transliteraion of the modern Greek (term ????????? lang=el). ¹

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Literary usage of Euripides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"It has usually been supposed that the unsparing derision of the comic poets contributed not a little to make the life of Euripides at Athens uncomfortable ..."

2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Euripides is a great emotional dramatist; a master of the picturesque; the only Greek, except Aristophanes, who set foot in the charmed woodlands of fancy.1 ..."

3. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1898)
"The Admetus of Euripides viewed in Relation to the Admetus of Tradition. ... THE main difficulty that presents itself to the student of Euripides' Alcestis ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Euripides now became the object of criticism from a new point of view. ... Schlegel, in fact, will scarcely allow that Euripides is tolerable except by ..."

5. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"Attic Comedy, as such, was the natural foe of a tragic poet like Euripides. Aristophanes clearly understood the artistic limits proper to Attic Tragedy. ..."

6. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"Euripides The true , I J- great ness of is a great emotional dramatist ; a master of the pic- LuH^ldes' turesque ; the only Greek, except Aristophanes, ..."

7. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It is because Euripides was not in accord with the spirit of the heroic myths that ... When the first protests of ihc comic pools were over, Euripides was ..."

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