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, 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 ).

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.

* Euripides ' The Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis are performed posthumously as part of a tetralogy at the City Dionysia festival and win first prize.

It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides ' son or nephew probably directed.

According to reports about Euripides ' lost play Telephus, he went to Aulis pretending to be a beggar ; there he asked Clytemnaestra, the wife of Agamemnon, what he should do to be healed.

worked on the plays by Euripides, publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis, in 1919 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis and Hippolytus, an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus Temporizes ( 1927 ), a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba ( 1931 ), and Euripides ' Ion ( 1937 ) a loose translation of Ion.

Iphigenia in Aulis (, Iphigeneia en Aulidi ; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide ) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides.

The New York World Premiere of this version of " Iphigenia 2. 0 " was originally produced by Signature Theatre Company, New York City, and was described in the New York Times review as a " proudly unfaithful and rather tedious version of Euripides ' " Iphigenia at Aulis.

His versions of the Oedipus of Sophocles and of the Iphigeneia at Aulis of Euripides were rewarded by the Hungarian Academy, of which in 1838 he was elected honorary member.

In 1846 she returned to Dublin to perform in Euripides ' Iphigenia at Aulis, which proved as popular as her Antigone had been the previous year.

The Songs of Kings was a novel published in 2002 by Barry Unsworth that retells the story of Iphigenia at Aulis told by the Greek tragic poet Euripides.

By the time of Euripides, the islands were identified with the Echinades: in Euripedes ' Iphigeneia at Aulis ( 405 BCE ), the chorus of women from Chalcis have spied the Hellenes ' fleet and seen Eurytus who " led the Taphian warriors with the white oar-blades, the subjects of Meges, son of Phyleus, who had left the isles of the Echinades, where sailors cannot land.

Euripides ( in Iphigeneia at Aulis ) identifies the Echinades with the islands of Taphos ( Taphiae Insulae ).

The sense of relationship overreaches the historical truth that Shakespeare may have known next to nothing of the actual works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

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

Agathon was also a friend of Euripides, another recruit to the court of Archelaus of Macedon.

Some anapaestic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in Gellius.

Pericles learned to love and admire him, and the poet Euripides derived from him an enthusiasm for science and humanity.

After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

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.

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

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

It was supposed by Euripides ( Ion, 995 ) that the Gorgon was the original possessor of this goatskin, yet the usual understanding is that the Gorgoneion was added to the Aegis, a votive gift from a grateful Perseus.

Housman continued pursuing classical studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.

The film records The Performance Group's performance of Euripides ’ The Bacchae, starring, amongst others, De Palma regular William Finley.

Euripides () ( c. 480 – 406 BC ) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles.

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.

Whereas Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence, Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia.

Recent scholarship casts doubt on ancient biographies of Euripides.

He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis ( The Cave of Euripides ), " where he built an impressive library and pursued daily communion with the sea and sky ", eventually retiring to the " rustic court " of King Archelaus in Macedonia, there dying in 406 BC.

A statue of Euripides, Louvre, Paris.

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.