Euripides
(485? - ?406 BC) Born in Phyle, Attica (Greece). Died
Magnesia, Thessaly. Buried Arethusa, Macedonia Plays
The following plays can be dated with precision: Nos. 1,
2, 3, 10, 13, and 16. Two others, Nos. 17 and 18, are known
to have been performed posthumously. While the dates of Nos.
11 and 15 are reasonably precise, the rest of the plays have
been dated almost exclusively on internal evidence.
(Rhesus formerly grouped with Euripides's plays, is
now generally considered to be the work of an anonymous
author of the fourth century B.C.) In each case the first
title given is a transliteration from the Greek; the first
in parentheses is the Latin designation.
- Alkestis
(Alcestis). 438 B.C.
- Medeia (Medea). 431 B.C.
- Hippolytas
(Hippolytus). 428 B.C.
- Andromache (Andromacha;
Andromache). 426? B.C.
- Kyklops (Cyclops; The
Cyclops). Satyr play. Ca. 423 s.c.
- Herakleidai
(Heraclidae; The Children of Heracles).
Ca. 425/422 B.C.
- Herakles(Hercules furens;
Heracles). Ca. 421 B.C.
- Hiketides (Supplices; The
Suppliants). Ca. 420/418 s.c.
- Hekabe (Hecuba).
417 B.C.
- Troiades (Troades; The
Trojan Women). 415 B.C.
- Elektra(Electra).
413? B.C.
- Iphigeneia e en
Taurois (Iphigenia Taurica; Iphigenia in
Tauris). Ca. 412 B.C.
- Helene (Helena;
Helen). 412 B.C.
- Ion (Ion). Ca.
411 B.C.
- Phoinissai
(Phoenissae; The Phoenician Women). Ca.
411 B.C.
- Orestes
(Orestes). 408 B.C.
- Bakchai (Bacchae; The
Bacchae). 405 B.C.
- Iphigeneia e en
Aulidi (Iphigenia Aulidensis; Iphigenia in
Aulis). 405 B.C.
Criticism
- A. W. Verrall, Euripides the Rationalist, New
York, 1895;
- W. Nestle, Euripides, Stuttgart, 1901;
- G. H. Macurdy, The Chronology of the Extant Plays
of Euripides, Lancaster, Pa., 1905;
- A. W. Verrall, Essays on Four Plays of Euripides, Cambridge, England, 1905;
- P. Decharme, Euripides and the Spirit of His
Drama, tr. by J. Loeb, New York, 1906;
- A. W. Verrall, The Bacchants of Euripides and
Other Essays, Cambridge, England, 1910;
- G. Norwood, Euripides and Shaw, London,
1921;
- R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Euripides and Dionysus:
An Interpretation of the "Bacchae," Cambridge,
England, 1948;
- G. Norwood, Essays on Euripidean Drama, Berkeley, Calif., 1954;
- G. Zuntz, The Political Plays of Euripides, Manchester, England, 1955;
- G. M. A. Grube, The Drama of Euripides, reprint, New York, 1961;
- F. L. Lucas, Euripides and His Influence, reprint, New York, 1963;
- W. Ritchie, The Authenticity of the Rhesus of
Euripides, London, 1964;
- G. Murray, Euripides and His Age, 2d ed., New
York, 1965;
- G. Murray, Euripides and His Age, 2d ed., New
York, 1965;
- G. Zuntz, An Inquiry into the Transmission of the
Plays of Euripides, London, 1965;
- D. J. Conacher, Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme and
Structure, Toronto, 1967;
- E. Segal, ed., Euripides: A Collection of Critical
Essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1968;
- T. B. L. Webster, Tragedies of Euripides, New
York, 1968;
- W. N. Bates, Euripides: A Student of Human Nature, reprint, New York, 1969;
- S. Melchinger, Euripides, tr. by S. Rosenbaum,
New York, 1973;
- C. H. Whitman, Euripides and the Full Circle of
Myth, Cambridge, Mass., 1974;
- Philip Vellacott, Ironic Drama: A Study of
Euripides' Method and Meaning, New York, 1975.
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