Proteus of Egypt is mentioned in an alternate version of the story of Helen of Troy in the tragedy Helen of Euripides ( produced in 412 BC ).

In keeping with one of his themes in Helen, Euripides mentions in passing Eido (" image "), another unseen daughter of the king.

a ) Menelaus resolved to kill Helen but Euripides tells us that, when he found her, her striking beauty prompted him to drop his sword and take her back to his ship “ to punish her at Sparta ”, as he claimed, but in reality she got away with it.

According to Euripides ' Helen, after Menelaus dies, he is reunited with Helen on the Isle of the Blessed.

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.

When the Sirens were given a name of their own they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon ( the Earth ; in Euripides ' Helen 167, Helen in her anguish calls upon " Winged maidens, daughters of the Earth ").

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.

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 ".

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.

* Euripides, Helen.

* Euripides, Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen ( The Complete Greek Tragedies ) ( Vol 4 ), University Of Chicago Press ; 1 edition ( April 15, 2002 ).

* Euripides, Electra, Helen and Orestes, translated by E. P. Coleridge, in Volume 2 of The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O ' Neill, Jr. in two volumes.

In his Andromache, Euripides dramatizes when she and her child were nearly assassinated by Hermione, the wife of Neoptolemus and daughter of Helen and Menelaus.

* Helen ( play ), a play by Euripides

* Theoclymenos is also the name of the king of Egypt in Euripides ' play Helen.

* 412 BCE: Euripides ' plays Helen and Andromeda were produced.

The plot of Iphigenia in Tauris is similar to that of Euripides ' Helen and Andromeda, both of which are known to have been first performed in 412.

* Euripides, Hecuba, in The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O ' Neill, Jr. in two volumes.

Aeschylus (, Aiskhulos ; c. 525 / 524 BC – c. 456 / 455 BC ) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Classicists such as Arthur Verrall and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff reacted against the views of the Schlegels and Nietzsche, constructing arguments sympathetic to Euripides, which involved Wilamowitz in this restatement of Greek tragedy as a genre: " A tragedy does not have to end ' tragically ' or be ' tragic '.

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.

In its earliest form, " grammar school " referred to a school that taught students to read, scan, interpret, and declaim Greek and Latin poets ( including Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Ennius, and others ).

He also pushed for the study of Greek, housing Barlaam of Calabria, and encouraging his tentative translations of works by Homer, Euripides, and Aristotle.

Greek playwrights such as Euripides and Aristophanes used symbols to distinguish the ends of phrases in written drama: this essentially helped the play's cast to know when to pause.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and 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.

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

Among the items lost in the fire are works of science, including parchments by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos asserting that the Earth orbits the Sun, and dozens of dramatic works by Euripides and Sophocles.

The original Greek chorus sang its part in Greek drama, and fragments of works by Euripides ( Orestes ) and Sophocles ( Ajax ) are known from papyri.

Both kings were enjoying a performance of Euripides ' Greek tragedy The Bacchae and a certain actor of the royal court, named Jason of Tralles, took the head and sang the following verses ( also from the Bacchae ):

** Euripides, Greek playwright

* Euripides, Greek playwright ( d. 406 BCE )

* 441 Euripides, Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize

Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabula crepidata ( tragedies adapted from Greek originals ); his Phaedra, for example, was based on Euripides ' Hippolytus.

The Renaissance scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger ( 1484 – 1558 ), who knew both Latin and Greek, preferred Seneca to Euripides.

The Greek tragic authors ( Sophocles and Euripides ) would become increasingly important as models by the middle of the 17th century.

Jean Racine's tragedies — inspired by Greek myths, Euripides, Sophocles and Seneca — condensed their plot into a tight set of passionate and duty-bound conflicts between a small group of noble characters, and concentrated on these characters ' double-binds and the geometry of their unfulfilled desires and hatreds.

* Euripides, Bacchae, a Greek tragedy, gives some insight as to what was involved in a Bacchanalian rite.

* Barrett, W. S., Greek Lyric, Tragedy, and Textual Criticism: Collected Papers, edited for publication by M. L. West ( Oxford & New York, 2007 ): papers dealing with Bacchylides, Stesichorus, Pindar, and Euripides

Van Cleef, " The Pseudo-Gregorian Drama Christos paschon in its relation to the text of Euripides " in Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, VIII, 363-378 ; Krumbacher, 312.