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[[File:Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302.jpg|thumb|300px|Bust of Euripides at the Vatican Museums.]]
[[Euripides]] was a playwright of [[Ancient Greece]] (5th century BC), one of three great tragedians whose works have survived to the present day (the earlier two are [[Aeschylus]] and [[Sophocles]]). A whopping eighteen of his plays have survived complete (many via a remarkably-preserved 800-year-old copy of The Complete Works of Euripides -- Volume 2: E-K), along with fragments of many others. One of these, ''The Cyclops'', is a [[Satyr Play]] about Polyphemus.
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Any discussion of Euripides has to make note of the fact that he had a [[Love It or Hate It]] reputation during his day. Euripides was well aware of the constraints placed upon playwrights at the time, and many of his plays attempted to subvert at least one of the Aristotelian conventions. Today, however, some scholars regard him as the best of the three surviving Greek playwrights and several regard him as the Shakespeare of Athens.
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* ''[[Alcestis]]''
* ''Andromache''
* ''[[Bacchae]]''
* ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]''<ref>(The only surviving [[Satyr Play]])</ref>
* ''Electra''
* ''Hecuba''
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