In Euripides ' play Ion, Apollo fathered Ion by Creusa, wife of Xuthus.

Some historians believe that Acts borrows phraseology and plot elements from Euripides ' play The Bacchae.

* Cyclops ( play ), a play by Euripides

Euripides was the youngest in a set of three great tragedians who were almost contemporaries: his first play was staged thirteen years after Sophocles's debut and only three years after Aeschylus's masterpiece, the Oresteia.

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

Euripides sometimes ' resolved ' the two syllables of the iamb (˘¯) into three syllables (˘˘˘) and this tendency increased so steadily over time that the number of resolved feet in a play can be understood to indicate the approximate date of composition ( see Extant plays below for one scholar's list of resolutions per hundred trimeters ).

Eurystheus was a character in Heracleidae, a play by Euripides.

The Heracleidae are the main subject of Euripides ' play, Heracleidae.

* Medea ( Euripides ' play )

* Cyclops by Euripides, the only extant satyr play, retells the respective episode with a humorous twist.

These characters can be found in the only complete remaining satyr play, Cyclops, by Euripides, and the fragments of Sophocles ' Ichneutae ( Tracking Satyrs ).

One complete satyr play from the 5th century survives, the Cyclops of Euripides.

Titles like " Fedra West " ( also called Ballad of a Bounty Hunter ) and Johnny Hamlet signify the connection to the Greek myth and possibly the plays by Euripides and Racine and the play by William Shakespeare, respectively.

In 1992, Vangelis wrote the music for the Euripides play, Medea, that featured Irene Papas.

* Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes, Gota d ' Água ( musical play set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, based on Euripides, 1975 )

The dramatist Euripides also wrote a play called Antigone, which is lost, but some of the text was preserved by later writers and in passages in his Phoenissae.

Antigone also plays a role in Euripides extant play The Phoenician Women.

* Antigone, a play by Euripides ( ca.

In Euripides ' play Trojan Women, written in 415 B. C., the god Poseidon proclaims, “ For, from his home beneath Parnassus, Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed host, and sent it within the battlements, fraught with death ; whence in days to come men shall tell of ' the wooden horse ,' with its hidden load of warriors .”

In the play Heracles by Euripides, Amphitryon survives to witness the murders of Heracles ' children and wife.

Euripides ' play Helen, written in the late 5th century BC, is the earliest source to report the most familiar account of Helen's birth: that, although her putative father was Tyndareus, she was actually Zeus ' daughter.

In the version put forth by Euripides in his play Helen, Hera fashioned a likeness of Helen ( eidolon, εἴδωλον ) out of clouds at Zeus ' request, Hermes took her to Egypt, and Helen never went to Troy, spending the entire war in Egypt.

According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus ' return.

Sophocles ' tragedy Aegeus has been lost, but Aegeus features in Euripides ' Medea.

The story of Medea's revenge on Jason is told with devastating effect by Euripides in his tragedy Medea.

According to the tragic poet Euripides, Medea continued her revenge, murdering her two children by Jason.

Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.

* Euripides, Medea

* Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou ( Bost ), Medea ( parody of Medea of Euripides )

In 2002, she returned to Croatia after some 11 years to take the lead role in Rade Šerbedžija's Ulysses Theatre Company's production of Euripides ' Medea.

During in an interview on Later ... with Jools Holland, Love claimed the name for the band was inspired by a quote from Euripides ' Medea which read " there's a hole that pierces my soul.

* 2001: Medea ( Euripides )

Three of the world's greatest dramatists were Aeschylus, author of the Oresteia trilogy ; Sophocles, author of the Theban plays ; and Euripides, author of Medea, The Trojan Women, and The Bacchae.

Porson at first took no notice of either, but went on with his Euripides, publishing the Orestes in 1798, the Phoenissae in 1799 and the Medea in 1801, the last printed at the Cambridge press, and with the editor's name on the title-page.

2002: Fiona Shaw plays title role of Euripides ’ Medea, directed by Deborah Warner ; following its BAM run the Abbey Theatre production moves to Broadway

A more frequently cited example is Euripides ' Medea in which the deus ex machina, a dragon-drawn chariot sent by the Sun-God, is used to convey his granddaughter Medea, who has just committed murder and infanticide, away from her husband Jason to the safety and civilization of Athens.

Euripides: Medea.

* Medea in Euripides ' Medea ( 431 BC ).

Euripides ' use of the mechane in Medea ( 431 BC ) is a notable use of the machine for a non-divine character.

In 1947, she triumphed as Medea in a version of Euripides ' tragedy, written by the poet Robinson Jeffers and produced by John Gielgud, who played Jason.

* 441 Euripides, Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize

* The Greek playwright, Euripides, wins his first victory in a dramatic festival.