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s0207l-EURIPIDES born 480-406 BC in possibly Salamis, Greece, writer, 

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Statuette of Euripides, identified by an inscription on the base. On the background panel are listed some of Euripides' works. The statuette's head was restored after a bust now in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. Marble, found in 1704 in the Esquiline Hill at Rome, 2nd century AD.

His father's name was either Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides and his mother's name Cleito, 1 of the 3 great tragedians along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, wrote maybe 90+ plays with 18 surviving, he wrote strong women characters, intelligent slaves, and satirized many heroes of Greek mythology.

Wrote;

Alcestis 438 BC, second prize, Medea 431 BC, Heracleidae 430 BC, Hippolytus 428 BC, first prize, Andromache 425 BC, Hecuba 424 BC, The Suppliants 423 BC, Electra 420 BC, Heracles 416 BC, Trojan Women 415 BC, second prize, Iphigeneia in Tauris 414 BC, Ion 414 BC, Helen 412 BC, Phoenician Women 410 BC, Orestes 408 BC, Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis 405 BC, posthumous, first prize, Cyclops,

 18 other plays exist partially,