Euripides
[juə'ripidi:z]
Definition
(noun.) one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC).
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Examples
- He was heard outside quoting Euripides in a bold and disrespectful tone: Are these your customs? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is not fair to say I idealize the Athenian mob; see, for example, my _Euripides and his Age_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. Plato. The Republic.
- Our playwrights date from old Hellenic days, and are called ?schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the actors are my Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Verily, then, tragedy is a wise thing and Euripides a great tragedian. Plato. The Republic.
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