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.

* Euripides ' play Medea wins third prize at the Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival.

* 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.

The dialogue often contrasts so strongly with the mythical and heroic setting, it looks as if Euripides aimed at parody, as for example in The Trojan Women, where the heroine's rationalized prayer provokes comment from Menelaus:

P contains all the extant plays of Euripides, L is missing The Trojan Women and latter part of The Bacchae.

Euripides also expressed strong anti-war ideas in his work, especially The Trojan Women.

Euripides started changing Greek myths at will, including those of the Trojan War.

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

Hecuba is a main character in two plays by Euripides: The Trojan Women and Hecuba.

* Hecuba and The Trojan Women, plays by Euripides

* Euripides, " Trojan Women "

According to Euripides, however, in his plays The Trojan Women and Hecuba, Polyxena's famous death was caused at the end of the Trojan War.

Mentioned briefly in Euripides ' plays Trojan Women and Hecuba, simply stating that Andromache, wife of Hector, was his promised spear bride.

In Euripides ' The Trojan Women, Andromache despairs at the murder of her son Astyanax and is then given to Neoptolemus as a concubine.

Aomawa Baker ( Andromache ) in Euripides ' The Trojan Women, directed by Brad Mays at the ARK Theatre Company in Los Angeles, 2003

She was portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave in the 1971 film version of Euripides ' The Trojan Women, and by Saffron Burrows in the 2004 film Troy.

The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides ' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

* 1965: Trojan Women ( Euripides )

The next year, the Athenian tragedian Euripides wrote Trojan Women, which explored the hardships of conquest on women, set in the legendary past of the Trojan War.

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.

The drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War.

Talthybius appears in Euripides ’ Hecuba and The Trojan Women.

From Euripides, the Hippolytus and The Bacchae ( together with The Frogs of Aristophanes ; first edition, 1902 ); the Medea, Trojan Women, and Electra ( 1905 – 1907 ); Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1910 ); The Rhesus ( 1913 ) were presented at the Court Theatre, in London.

* Euripides, The Trojan Women ( 1905 )