Euripides
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Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's ''Othello'', Racine's ''Phèdre'', of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates". But he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.
His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism. Both were frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes. Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence. Ancient biographies hold that Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia, but recent scholarship casts doubt on these sources. Provided by Wikipedia
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Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies 1990 - 1999
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Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies 2000 - 2014
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Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies <1990
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Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
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Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2014
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Superior document: Greek tragedy in new translations
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Ion / Euripides ; translated by W.S. Di Piero ; introduction, notes, and commentary by Peter Burian.
Published: 1996.
Superior document: Greek tragedy in new translations
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Superior document: The Greek tragedy in new translations
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Superior document: The new classical canon
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Trojan women / Euripides ; translated by Alan Shapiro ; with introduction and notes by Peter Burian.
Published: 2009.
Superior document: Greek tragedy in new translations
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Superior document: Griechische Dramen
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Published: c2008.
Superior document: Griechische Dramen
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Published: 2001.
Superior document: The Greek tragedy in new translations
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Bakkhai / Euripides ; translated by Reginald Gibbons ; with introduction and notes by Charles Segal.
Published: 2001.
Superior document: Greek tragedy in new translations
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Published: 2006.
Superior document: The Greek tragedy in new translations