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Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined — he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
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",[nb 1] 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.
Known among the writers of classical Athens for his unparalleled sympathy towards all victims of society, including women, slaves or strangers, 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.
Most Popular Euripides Trailers
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09 May 2019
Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear.
12 October 1959
A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
01 January 1983
Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason.
22 October 2022
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance.
25 March 1963
Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
10 September 1977
The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer.
28 December 1969
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
25 May 1962
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly.
08 August 1989
Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven into fury and vengeful madness after he decides to abandon her to become successor to the throne by marring Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth.
14 November 2020
In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie.
27 September 2009
A talented ensemble cast bring Euripides masterpiece to life. The Bacchae (also called The Bacchants or Bakchai in Greek) tells the story of the god Dionysus who comes to the city of Thebes disguised as a charismatic young man accompanied by a throng of erotic female maenads.
28 August 2001
The movie comprises three vignettes of actors-speaking-to-audience, two of which are monologues. All three revolve around violence or murder.
25 May 1962
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
09 April 1993
The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east.
21 December 1964
In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.
17 February 1967
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater.
01 May 1971
In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone.
21 May 1978
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea.
07 April 1970
Adi (Admitos) is under the protection of Apollo, the son of a man with money and relationships. The two are in jail, suspected of murder, but without evidence.
22 March 1970
Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text.
01 March 2018
An actress loses her identity in a character, what then turns her life into tragedy.
26 February 2011
Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production.
22 November 1969
The third part of Euripides’ trilogy relates Orestes’ confrontation with the people of Argos after killing his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, and his struggle to defend himself and his heritage – with the support of his sister, Electra.
30 October 2020
The inalienable and inconceivable core of an old myth is swirling and fermenting beneath the surface of a recognizable contemporary story.
02 March 1961
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
04 September 2014
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile.
04 May 2022
After escaping from her homeland and now abandoned by the man she loves, Medea must find strength from within to fight against growing injustice - how far is she willing to go?
02 June 1954
Medea is centered on Medea's calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, where he met Medea.
22 April 2008
Euripides' Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a rocky desolate Mexican border town in this poetic reinterpretation by Director Mauricio Chernovetzky.
10 October 1987
Hecuba (Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη, Hekabē) is a tragedy by Euripides, written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War but before the Greeks have departed Troy (roughly the same time as The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides).
04 July 2021
Euripides' “The Bacchae,” directed by Catalan Carlus Padrissa, one of the founders of La Fura dels Baus, a company celebrated worldwide for its ability to rewrite the language of contemporary theater, opens the 56th edition of the Greek Theater Festival in Syracuse.
01 July 1979
Famous tragedy by Euripides in ballet.
20 February 2001
Repudiated by her husband Jason, Medea takes cruel revenge on her children.
01 January 2024
The goddess of love, Aphrodite, opens the tragedy and the goddess of hunting, Artemis, concludes it, but at the center of Euripides' “Hippolytus, Bearer of the Crown” (428 BC) are not the gods, but rather Phaedra's absolute, consuming human passion for her stepson, Hippolytus.
02 July 2010
Based on the ancient Greek traged written by the Athenian playwright Euripides.
29 August 2021
The Trojan Women takes place in the immediate aftermath of Troy's defeat, which ended the ten-year Trojan War, fought between the Trojans and the Greeks.
01 January 2018
Euripides' Heracles, a passionate tragedy of intense pathos, performed by an all-female cast and directed by Emma Dante at the Greek Theater in Syracuse.
01 January 2012
TV adaptation of Michael Thalheimer's production at the Schauspiel Frankfurt.
15 September 2025
The sell-out 2024 Oxford Ancient Languages Society performance of Euripides' Orestes in full! In the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music, and incorporating an ancient fragment that may be by Euripides himself.
10 October 2014
In this contemporary take on the ancient Greek tragedy “The Bacchae” by Euripides, Dionysus, the god of wine, madness, divine ecstasy and of the arts is a downtown fashion photographer with a gluten allergy, who, along with his model Maenads, lures the rational and civilized King Pentheus into his hotel party of debauchery.
01 January 2023
From the Greek Theater in Syracuse, Euripides' tragedy staged by Federico Tiezzi, starring Laura Marinoni.
