King Artavazd II ( 55-34 BC ) managed to stage and direct The Bacchae of Euripides on Artashat amphitheatre in 53 BC with the presence of king Orodes II of Parthia.

* Cyclops ( play ), a play by Euripides

However, in Cyclops ( the only complete satyr-play that survives ) Euripides structured the entertainment more like a tragedy and introduced a note of critical irony typical of his other work.

* 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.

In Euripides ' satyr play Cyclops the minor god Silenus claims to have dealt Enceladus ' death blow, but this was perhaps intended by the author as a vain drunken boast, since Silenus also claims to have sent the Gigantes flying with the braying of his ass.

By Euripides you know ninety-two dramas, tragedies, of which eighteen survive, The Return is generally considered spurious, and a satyr play, the Cyclops.

Although the genre was popular, only one example has survived in its entirety, Euripides ' Cyclops.

The only satyr play to survive in its entirety is Euripides ' Cyclops, based on Odysseus ' encounter with the cyclops, Polyphemus, in Book 9 of the Odyssey.

Euripides, Cyclops, Sophocles, Ichneutai Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd.

The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of drama: in ancient Greece, Cyclops, a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example.

The productions have been: The Invention of Love ( Tom Stoppard, directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, produced by Judith Hallett ), The Heavensgate Deposition ( based on Apocolocyntosis by Seneca the Younger, adapted by Douglass Parker, directed by Amy R. Cohen, produced by Thomas Jenkins ), The Golden Age ( by Thomas Heywood, directed by C. W. Marshall ), Iran Man ( based on Persa by Plautus, directed by Mary-Kay Gamel ), Thespis ( by W. S. Gilbert and A. S. Sullivan, with new music by Alan Riley Jones, directed by John Starks, produced by John Given ), The Birds ( by Aristophanes, directed by Thomas Talboy ), Cyclops ( by Euripides, directed by Laura Lippman and Mike Lippman ), Thersites ( perhaps by Nicholas Udall, directed by C. W. Marshall ), Thesmophoriazusae ( by Aristophanes, directed by Bella Vivante ) and The Jurymen ( by Katherine Janson, directed by Amy R. Cohen ).

At school he wrote his thesis on Euripides ’ play The Cyclops.

* Two Satyr Plays: Euripides ' Cyclops and Sophocles ' Ichneutai ( 1957 )

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

Apollodoros ( Bibliotheke ) recounts that Megara was unharmed and given in marriage to Iolaus, while in Euripides ' version Heracles killed Megara, too.

* Euripides, Andromache, in Euripides: Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, with an English translation by David Kovacs.

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

According to Euripides, Heracles shot Cycnus with his arrows, and this took place in Amphanae near the river Anaurus.

In the Heracleidae of Euripides, Macaria (" she who is blessed ") is a daughter of Heracles.

In Euripides ' play Heracles, Iris appears alongside Lyssa, cursing Heracles with the fit of madness in which he kills his three sons and his wife Megara.

* Herakles ( Euripides ), also known as Heracles Mad, a Greek tragedy by Euripides

In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).

Some of the others include Troades by Euripides, Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Iphigenia and Polyxena by Samuel Coster, Palamedes by Joost van den Vondel and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz.

According to some versions of the legend, the hunting goddess Artemis replaced her at the very last moment with a deer on the altar, and took Iphigenia to Tauris ( See Iphigenia en Tauris by Euripides ).

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.

Scene from the tragedy Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides.

Badham published editions of Euripides, Helena and Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1851 ), Ion ( 1851 ); Plato's Philebus ( 1855, 1878 ); Laches and Eutzydemus ( 1865 ), Phaedrus ( 1851 ), Symposium ( 1866 ) and De Platonis Epistolis ( 1866 ).

In Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia's mother and Helen's sister, begs her husband to reconsider his decision, calling Helen a " wicked woman ".

* Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

Euripides has two stories about Iphigenia.

In Euripides ’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon is told by Calchas that in order for the winds to allow him to sail to Troy, Agamemnon must sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis.

Euripides ’ character of Iphigenia holds many complex meanings that stem from her decision to willingly sacrifice herself.

In Euripides ’ other story about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, the play takes place after the sacrifice and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

The earliest known accounts of the death of Iphigenia are included in Euripides ' Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, both Athenian tragedies of the fifth century BCE set in the Heroic Age.

The reason for many discrepancies in the telling of the myth is because playwrights such as Euripides modified the stories about Iphigenia to make them more palatable for the audiences and make sequels using the same characters.

* Iphigenia at Aulis, play by Euripides.

* Iphigenia in Tauris, play by Euripides.

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.